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Nothing will protect us from external compulsion as much as the control of ourselves, and, as Seneca says, to submit yourself to reason is the way to make everything else submit to you.
Don’t waste the works of the devil. Spiritual roots can grow deeper in adversity. Use the inner, raging storms. Have sight without flight or fight. Remain a seer. Nothing is too much. All storms are for growth. Remember, no exceptions!
A man should orient his will and all his works to God and having only God in view go forward unafraid, not thinking, “Am I right or am I wrong?” One who worked out all the chances before starting his first fight would never fight at all. And if, going to someplace, we must think how to set the front foot down, we shall never get there. It is our duty to do the next thing: go straight on, that is the right way.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.
You will be of as much worth to others as you are to yourself.
All things change, yet we need not fear anything new.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
‘Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,
But the plain single vow that is vow’d true.
True seekers keep riding straight through,
whereas big, lazy, self-worshiping geese
unload their pack animals in a farmyard
and say, “This is far enough.”
You will win because God has already won.
Do what you should do when you should do it. Refuse to do what you should not do. And when it is not clear, wait until you are sure.
Freedom from what is unwanted by us begins by awakening to what is unknown within us.
The only way to get the confidence of the world is to show the world that you do not want their confidence.
Where one man shapes his life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have it shaped for them by impulse and by circumstances.
To change what you get you must change who you are.
Bring all opposites inside yourself and reconcile them. Understand that you are everywhere: on the land, in the sea, in the sky. Realize that you haven’t yet been begotten, that you are still in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you are dead, that you are in the world beyond the grave. Hold all this in your mind, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes. Then you can perceive God.
The beginning of philosophy is to know the condition of one’s own mind. If a man recognizes its weaknesses, he will not wish to apply it to important questions.
Charity bears all things, is long suffering in all things. There is nothing mean to charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the lect of God have been made perfect.
