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We think few people sensible except those who are of our own opinion.
Truth is the agreement of the mind with itself.
Do you earnestly ponder and sincerely try to understand?
Your friends will tell you that they are sincere; your enemies are really so. Let your enemies’ criticism be like a bitter medicine, to be used as a means of self-knowledge.
Man cannot understand more because he is in a state of inner disorganization. The quality of his consciousness is too separative and coarse. Yet he starts out in his investigations of the universe without any idea that he will be unable to penetrate beyond a certain point because he himself is an unsuitable instrument for this purpose.
It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.
By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.
When the ocean surges,
don’t let me just hear it.
Let it splash inside my chest!
Look within. Let neither the special quality of anything, nor its value, escape you.
When the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without, as the flower responds to the sun, giving it heat and color.
A philosopher’s school is a hospital. You should feel discomfort, not pleasure, in it, for on entering, no one is well and whole. One has a disjointed shoulder, another a wound, a third suffers from a cut, and a fourth has a headache. Am I then to sit down and give you a treat of pretty words and empty sentiments, so you may applaud me and depart, with neither shoulder nor wound, cut, nor headache any better for your visit?
Chief among the causes of liberty is devotion, the watchfulness of the spirit towards its own nature.
All is the fear, and nothing is the love;
As little is the wisdom, where the flight
So runs against all reason.
The being who has attained harmony, and every being may attain it, has found his place in the order of the universe and represents the divine thought as clearly as a flower or a solar system. Harmony seeks nothing outside itself. It is what it ought to be; it is the expression of right, order, law and truth; it is greater than time, and represents eternity.
Thou that has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart. Not thankful when it please me, as if thy blessings had spare days. But such a heart whose pulse may be thy praise.
A man often fancies that he guides himself, when he is actually guided by other people, and while his mind aims at one objective, his heart insensibly draws him towards another.
While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love.
It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect he is capable of a new energy… by abandonment to the nature of things; that beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe.
The soul of man does violence to itself, first of all.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.
