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Modest doubt is call’d the beacon of the wise.
Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?
By the accident of good fortune a man may rule the world for a time. But by virtue of love he may rule the world forever.
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will give every man a spirit home according to his deserts. This I believe, and all my people believe the same.
To know is to be ignorant. Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Thought is parent of the deed.
To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
How does the ocean become the king of all rivers and streams? Because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
Sometimes I wake, and, lo! I have forgot,
And drifted out upon an ebbing sea!
My soul that was at rest now resteth not,
For I am with myself and not with thee.
There is no greater punishment of evil than that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
If we subject everything to reason, our religion will have nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we violate the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.
Faith is a conviction of the reality of the things which we do not see. Through faith we understand that the world came into being and still exists at the command of God, so that what is seen does not owe its existence to that which is visible.
Epistle to the Hebrews (11, 1-3), Attributed to Paul the Apostle
When you sincerely enter into prayer, you will come forth with all your prayers answered. But a hundred prayers that lack sincerity will leave you still the bungler that you are, your work a failure. Prayers said from habit are like the dust that scatters in the wind. The prayers that reach God’s court are uttered by the soul.
Those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.
Those who are inwardly alone, whose minds and hearts are free from the ache of loneliness, they are real people, for they can discover for themselves what reality is, they can receive that which is timeless.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality. This is exhilarating and sublime.
What is rational is real, and what is real is rational.
