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My unassisted heart is barren clay,
That of its native self can nothing feed.
Of Good and pious works Thou art the seed,
That quickens only where Thou sayest it may.
Unless Thou show to us Thine own true way,
No man can find it.
Father! Thou must lead.
Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of the mind.
I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Knowledge alone disperses ignorance,
As sunlight scatters darkness.
Not so acts,
For ignorance originates in works.
I’ve never had a sorrow that one hour’s reading wouldn’t allay.
We take less pains to be happy than to appear so.
All things obey fixed laws.
We often inconvenience others, when we fancy we can never possibly do so.
It is only the silent mind, the mind that is free, that can come upon that which is beyond time.
Life is a dream. Death is an awakening.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
I exist as I am — that is enough. If no other in the world be aware, I sit content.
Water flows continually into the ocean
But the ocean is never disturbed.
Desire flows into the mind of the seer
But he is never disturbed.
The seer knows peace.
(If people changed inwardly) They would be different, richer, and higher, but would not at all be discontinued. What would be destroyed is whatever is false in them, while whatever is true in them would blossom and grow stronger.
May all I am and do return to praise the One!
As a man is, so he sees.
Every instrument and tool, if it does that for which it has been made, is well, and yet he who made it is not there. But in things which are put together by nature, there abides in them the power which made them, therefore, the more correct it is to reverence this power. Think that if you live and act according to its will, everything in you is in harmony with intelligence.
Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and independence.
