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The man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The essence of religion consists solely in the answer to the question, “Why do I live, and what is my relation to the infinite universe around me?”
Don’t think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
Let us begin life anew.
For the sake of this end there has been given to man the ability to elevate his understanding into the light in which the angels of heaven are, that he may see what he must will and must do.
Ignorance is the root of misfortune.
In the fear of life, the temptation of sorrow is created.
Don’t you remember on earth there were things too hot to touch with your finger but you could drink them all right? Shame is like that. If you will accept it — if you will drink the cup to the bottom — you will find it very nourishing; but try to do anything else with it and it scalds.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
The common people are but ill judges of a man’s merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
What need a man forestall his date of grief and run to meet what he would most avoid.
Whatever we are now, is the result of our acts and thoughts in the past; and whatever we shall be in the future, will be the result of what we think and do now… When it comes, the higher powers and possibilities of the soul are quickened, spiritual life is awakened, growth is animated.
If you devote your time to study, you will avoid all the irksome things of life, and you will not long for the approach of night, being tired of the day, and you will not be a burden to yourself, and your company will be acceptable to others.
Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.
If life knocks you flat on your back, open your eyes… Above you are the stars.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
Write down the word “gullibility.” Look it up in the dictionary. Study it.
