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It follows absolutely, that one who uses his understanding correctly, can fall a prey to no sorrow.
Give me understanding, and I shall live.
For never any thing can be amiss,
When simpleness and duty tender it.
By Jove, I will not speak a word:
There is between my will and all offences
A guard of patience.
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians — the inability to pronounce the word “No.” To be able to speak that word and to live alone, are the only two means to preserve one’s freedom and one’s character.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
When we look at the world through the veil of our desires we make it small and narrow, and fail to perceive its full truth.
What guarantee is there that the five senses, taken together, do cover the whole of possible existence? They cover simply our actual experience, our human knowledge of facts or events. There are gaps between the fingers; there are gaps between the senses. In these gaps is the darkness which hides the connection between things… this darkness is the source of our vague fear and anxiety, but also the home of the gods. They alone see the connections, the total relevance of everything that happens; that which now comes to us in bits and pieces, the accidents which exist only in our heads, in our limited perceptions.
I imagined that unity of being could be reached within the customary state of consciousness. I believed, in other words, that a radical change of being could take place as one was, merely through some adjustments. This is probably what most of us think, for we do not realize that in order to change anything in ourselves everything else must change, lest by trying to change one thing we create wrong results in other directions. Change of being is not a patchwork process. All sorts of minor modifications are no doubt possible in people without necessarily harmful results.
It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
In the future you will not clothe the naked, because everyone will be clothed in eternal light. You will not bury the dead because everyone wil be living life without end.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, in which all the chords need to be played in harmony.
A man should be so poor that he is not and has not a place for God to act in. To reserve a place would be to maintain distinctions. A man should be so disinterested and untrammeled that he does not know what God is doing in him.
Why not, then, take steps to be free?
The whole duty of man in this Day is to attain that share of the flood of grace which God poureth forth for him. Let none, therefore, consider the largeness or smallness of the receptacle.
O God, deliver me from the multitude of words within my own soul.
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
It is merely that when a man has found something which he prefers to life, he then for the first time begins to live.
