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It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul, for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgements.
To realize that you have not got something and that you need it, this is real asking.
Step out of your cave; the world waits for you as a garden.
This energy does not descend into individual life on any other condition than entire possession. It comes to the lowly and simple; it comes to whomever will put off what is foreign and proud; it comes as insight; it comes as serenity and grandeur.
He that hath not unbroken gentleness hath not Truth.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within. Whatever we do to the well, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
The subject on which I meditate is truth. The practice to which I devote myself is truth. The topic of my conversation is truth. My thoughts are always in the truth. For lo! My self has become the truth.
Power rests in tranquillity.
Have you again forgotten? Don’t you know that a good man does nothing for the sake of appearances, only for the sake of what is right?
Take precautions before the evil appears; regulate things before disorder has begun.
Whatever thou doest, whatever thou eatest, do all as if for me.
The mystic ocean of existence is not to be crossed as something outside ourselves. It is in oneself.
Thus it is said if you know them and know yourself, your victory will not be imperiled. If you know Heaven and you know Earth, your victory can be complete.
You do not see God. Love and you possess him… for God offers himself to us at once. Love me, he cries to us, and you shall possess me. You cannot love me without possessing me.
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
He who knows others is wise,
He who knows himself is enlightened.
My true being, the essence of my nature, myself, remains inviolate and inaccessible to the world’s attacks.
No man loves the man whom he fears.
Truths, which enter with affection, are reproduced.
Do not be bewildered by the surfaces; in the depths all becomes law.
