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It is our prerogative as spiritual beings, that we can rise above the feeling of the moment, above all that is isolated and individual.
Virtuous people have almost always a slight suspicion of their situation. They think they are being duped in the great market of life.
He had no feeling that he was in the heart of a crowded universe, between all whose great verities moved countless small and smaller truths. Little notion had he that to learn these after the measure of their importance, was his business, with eternity to do it in!
Human improvement is from within outwards.
The chief result gained by experience is clearness of view. This is what distinguishes the man of mature age… it is only then that he sees things plainly, and takes them for what they really are, while in earlier years he saw a phantom-world, put together with the whims and imaginations of his own mind… the real world was hidden from him, or the vision of it distorted. The first thing that experience does is to free us from the phantoms of the mind.
He is wise who is wise to himself.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
The Great Spirit is the name given to the life force radiating from all creation. This energy is called many things by many different people: the Creator, A’wonawil’onas (Zuni), Wankan-Tankan (Sioux), God, Tirawa (Pawnee), Great Mystery and Grandfather.
Freedom has a thousand charms to show, that slaves, however contented, never know.
That man by retiring from all externals and withdrawing into himself in the centre of his own unity becometh most like unto God.
Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.
O God, deliver me from the multitude of words within my own soul.
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. Nothing.
Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance.
Let him lovingly cast all his thoughts and cares, and his sins, too, as it were, on that unknown Will. Beyond this unknown will of God, he must desire and purpose nothing; neither way, nor rest, nor work, neither this nor that, nor wholly subject and offer himself up to this unknown will.
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
In faith, man becomes certain that he has himself not in himself.
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
The center of every man’s existence is a dream. Death, disease, and insanity are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
The burden which is well borne becomes light.