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I saw that all things which occasioned me any anxiety or fear had in themselves nothing of good or evil, except in so far as the mind was moved by them.
He who would distinguish the true from the false must have a clear idea of what is true and false.
From this kind of knowledge arises the most perfect satisfaction and contentment.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only aim of life.
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, no birth, identity, form — no object in the world, nor life, nor any visible thing; appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain. Ample are time and space — ample the fields of Nature.
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior?
A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself… In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
I exist as I am — that is enough. If no other in the world be aware, I sit content.
It is not far, it is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know.
You have not known what you are, you have slumbered upon yourself all your life… Whoever you are! Claim your own.
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood… I see that the elementary laws never apologize.
The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
Come forth, and bring with you a heart that watches and receives.
As high as we have mounted in delight, in our dejection do we sink as low.
We feel that we are greater than we know.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Without effort, he rules all things by the power of his mind.
On this road, therefore, to abandon one’s own way is to enter on the true way, or, to speak more correctly, to advance to the goal… for the spirit which has courageously resolved on passing, inwardly and outwardly, beyond the limits of its own nature, enters the limitless higher world.
The happy only are the truly great.
