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Hardly one in ten thousand will have the strength of mind to ask himself seriously and earnestly, “Is that true?”
It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit.
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself: the spirit is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be emptied of its imperfections, and taken up with divine thoughts and contemplation.
The sovereign good of a man is a mind that subjects all things to itself, and is itself subject to nothing. Such a man’s pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven or heaven comes to him.
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind which receives them has the right attitudes.
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and independence.
It is only after a man has rid himself of all pretence, and taken refuge in mere unembellished existence, that he is able to attain that peace of mind which is the foundation of human happiness.
The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy: their own self-love.
When you thus cease to be finite, you become one with the Infinite. In the reduction of your soul to its simplest self, its divine essence, you realize this Union, this Identity.
You ask, “How can we know the Infinite?” I answer, not by reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to reason, by entering into a state in which you are your finite self no longer, in which the Divine Essence is communicated to you. This is Ecstasy. It is the liberation of your mind from its finite consciousness.
All that tends to purify and elevate the mind will assist you in this attainment, and facilitate the approach and recurrence of these happy intervals.
When we meet with the self thus purified… even while here below, we have attained the heights, and need no further guidance.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is man.
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.
