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Wisdom of a person makes the face shine, but not the face of the body, not a part of the flesh, but the face of the inner person. The face of the inner person is illuminated by wisdom. But wisdom, light, Logos, truth and the other conceptions are identical when applied to Christ.
It is right to yield to the truth.
Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, and these can be checked by new and better ones.
The kingdom of Heaven is within you, and whosoever knoweth himself shall find it.
That thou art.
While we are aware of thirsting after knowledge, we begin to seek here and there, wherever we think we can get some truth, and, failing to find it we become dissatisfied and seek in a fresh direction. All search is vain, until we begin to perceive that knowledge is within ourselves… that we must help ourselves… Then we may know that the sun is rising, that the morning is breaking for us, and, taking courage, we must persevere until the goal is reached.
Grace is not bestowed according to human merits; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. For grace is so designated because it is given gratuitously.
Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify.
Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and good-nature.
Real ‘I’ is the Messiah, for whom the creature is waiting.
The Earth and myself are of one mind.
The Way that can be named is not the Way.
Human things must be known to be loved, but Divine things must be loved to be known.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
A man in not educated because he talks much; the learned man is he who is patient, free from hatred and fear.
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.
Your gentleness shall force more than your force move us to gentleness.
