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True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being — free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies — and therefore you can find out what religion is.
The great challenge is living your wounds through instead of thinking them through. It is better to cry than to worry, better to feel your wounds deeply than to try to understand them, better to let them enter into your silence than to talk about them. The choice you face constantly is whether you are taking your hurts to your head or to your heart.
I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own. I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing.
If you think you are behaving well then you are wrong, because seeing your own behavior as good is itself a form of pride.
A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Sleep no more!
In the highest stage of divine comfort is that peace which is said to pass all understanding.
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
Only the merciful can merit God’s mercy.
Eagles fly alone… they are but sheep which always herd together.
The boundless sea has absorbed the river and its limited waters. Now the river shares in all that the sea has. The sea carries the river along; the river cannot carry itself along. The river has become one with the sea. No, the river does not have all the qualities of the sea, but it is, nonetheless, in the sea.
This external world is but the gross form of the internal, or subtle. The finer is always the cause and the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, and the internal the cause. In the same way external forces are simply the grosser parts, of which the internal forces are the finer. One who has discovered and learned how to manipulate the internal forces will get the whole of nature under his control… He will be master of the whole of nature, internal and external.
So Nature deals with us, and takes away our playthings one by one, and by the hand leads us to rest.
Man is never deceived; he deceives himself.
He alone knows what love is who loves without hope.
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Delusions, errors, and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the timbers of which are faulty, and those who embark on them are asking to be shipwrecked.
If you did not desire your present position, you would not be doing everything possible to maintain it… If you cease doing those things which maintain your position, you will lose at once that position which you claim is forced upon you and which is your burden… It is impossible for any man to be placed against his own will in a condition which is contrary to his conscience.
The precious, the living, the effectual part… is that of which he sees the reasonableness and excellence; that which approves itself to his intelligence, his conscience, his heart; that which answers to deep wants in his own soul, and of which he has the witness in his own inward and outward experience.
