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The body is a device to calculate
the astronomy of the spirit.
Look through that astrolabe
and become oceanic.
God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction.
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
There is a sickness
Which puts some of us in distemper, but
I cannot name the disease; and it is caught
Of you that yet are well.
What man is there of you, whom if his son asks for bread, will he give him a stone.
Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
Let us not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that’s gone.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind. As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind.
Take another example: a room full of guests in full dress, being received with great ceremony. You could almost believe that this is a noble and distinguished company; but, as a matter of fact, it is compulsion, pain and boredom who are the real guests. For where many are invited, it is a rabble — even if they all wear stars. Really good society is everywhere of necessity very small. In brilliant festivals and noisy entertainments, there is always, at bottom, a sense of emptiness prevalent. A false tone is there.
Without going out of doors, one may know the whole world; without looking out of the window, one may see the way of heaven. The further one travels, the less one may know. Thus it is that without moving you may know; without looking you shall see; without doing you shall succeed.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life.
Stand apart from circumstances, and do not permit them to influence the mind.
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Who stands already on heaven’s topmost dome needs not to search for ladders.
When we meet with the self thus purified… even while here below, we have attained the heights, and need no further guidance.
Stop thinking and end your problems.
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.
Sublime me,
Master Alchemist,
Again, again
And yet again
In the cracked
And sooty retort
Of my own unwilling
Skin.
In your cruel,
Impartial fires
Bone and brain
All vain desires,
Vanity and inward blight
Refine. Reform me
Free of what obscures your
Light.
Transparent
Make this vessel be
So to embrace,
Transmit and focus
Your life-searing energy
That so careless flows
To and through
Me. Amen.
