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The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God.
To assist human beings in their search for wisdom was the purpose of the incarnation.
Our salvation consists wholly in being saved from ourselves.
Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature.
All men wish to be happy, but are dull at perceiving exactly what it is that makes life happy.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts — the eternal thought speaking in your thought.
What a light is here for those that can bear or love the light!
We are tied to whatever we avoid.
Where there is plenty of light there is strong shadow.
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance… it transcends speech… it is the bodily symbol of identity.
God is able to do more than man can understand.
It Cuts the Plow Reins
What does Purity do?
It cuts the plow reins.
It frees you from working and dining
In the mud.
It frees you from living behind
A Big ox
That is always breaking wind.
What can Purity do, my dear?
It can lift your heart
On a rising, bucking Sun
That makes the soul hunger
To reach the roof of Creation.
It offers what the whole world wants…
Real Knowledge and Power.
It offers what the wise crave…
The priceless treasure of Freedom.
Pure Divine Love is no meek priest
Or tight banker.
It will smash all your windows,
And only then throw in the holy gifts.
It will allow you to befriend
Life and light and sanity,
And not even mind waking
To another day.
It reveals the excitement of the Present
And the beauty of Precision.
It confers vitality and a sublime clarity,
Until finally all the heart can do
Is burst open
With great love and laughter!
O Purity,
O dear Truth and Friend within me,
Why didn’t you tell me sooner
You could do all this?
Cut the reins of illusion,
So we can all
Just go wild
Loving God
And everyone all day!
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it.
Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
If we liberate our souls from our petty selves, wish no ill to others, and become clear as a crystal diamond reflecting the light of truth, what a radiant picture will appear in us mirroring things as they are, without the admixture of burning desires, without the distortion of erroneous illusion, without the agitation of clinging and unrest.
That which hath been is now, and that which is to be hath already been.
Who in the world, then, is the man who has any authority to make any declaration about you?
Why do we follow the majority? Is it because they have more reason? No, because they have more power.
Never was anything in this world loved too much, but many things have been loved in a false way, and all in too short a measure.
