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I am blind and do not see the things of this world… But when the light comes from above, it enlightens my heart and I can see, for the Eye of my heart sees everything.
The path of love is a dynamic balance of opposites, a painful creative tension of uncertainties.
Excellent things are rare.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
The characteristic of heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts… But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Peace of mind produces right values,
right values produce right thoughts.
Right thoughts produce right actions
and right actions produce
work which will be a
material reflection
for others to see
of the serenity
of it all.
And here I am at last, a very fool, with useless learning curst, no wiser than at first.
The path of self-knowledge has this aim in view, for no one can know himself unless he turns inwards away from sense-perception, and unless he learns what to seek for. By oneself this is impossible. A man cannot get to know himself alone. His imagination stands in the way. There is no sufficient point in himself from which he can view himself aright, no sufficient knowledge. The establishing of this point is a matter of long work upon oneself with the assistance of those in whom this point is already established.
More radiant than the sun, purer than the snow, subtler than the ether, is the Self, the spirit within my heart. I am that Self, that Self am I.
Truth is truth
To th’end of reck’ning.
Who is more deluded than he who is careless of his own welfare?
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
Love of justice in most men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.
Time, force, and death,
Do to this body what extremes you can;
But the strong base and building of my love
Is as the very centre of the earth,
Drawing all things to it.
Physician, heal thyself.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope. For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
He knows that intelligent contact with cosmic conscious minds assists self conscious individuals in the ascent to the higher plane. He therefore hopes, by bringing about, or at least facilitating this contact, to aid men and women in making the almost infinitely important step in question.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
My servant does not cease to come near Me until I love him; and when I love him, I am the sight he sees with and the hearing he hears with and the hand he receives with and the foot he walks with.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control: these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
