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Despite the many differences that seem to exist between peoples the world over — regardless of culture, tradition, environment, or heredity — there is but one seeker, one search, and one sacred object of our desire. The celestial source of this sacred being doesn’t just live within us… we are, in fact, one with it.
The more detached and the purer the prayer, the more acceptable is it in the presence of God.
The well-cultivated soul has the Logos as its King.
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future. And time future contained in time past.
The creation of a permanent ‘I’ must take place somewhere beyond the sphere of self-love. It must be brought into existence through a series of acts which cannot be initiated by self-love and so cannot start from the admiration of oneself. And for this reason many things are necessary before such acts can be self-initiated. The whole standpoint must change. The standpoint of materialism or sensualism cannot provide the right basis from which to start. Only the recognition that there are higher degrees of reality, and the emotions that such a recognition can rouse, can begin to give the right starting point. For such emotions do not lie in the sphere of the self-love.
So the life of love is hidden, but its secret life is itself in motion and has eternity in it. As the quiet lake, however placidly it lies, is really running water — for is there not a wellspring at bottom? — so love, however quiet it is in its concealment, is ever flowing. But the quiet lake can become dry if its source sometime fails. The life of love, on the contrary, has an eternal wellspring. This life is fresh and everlasting — no cold can chill it — it is too fervent for that. And no heat can exhaust it, its coolness is too fresh for that. But it is hidden.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport you to the furthest shore.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
The Word of God is Truth and Truth is the Word of God, no matter where you find it.
Philosophy is a modest profession; it is all reality and plain dealing. I dislike solemnity and pretence, with nothing but pride behind it.
The boundless sea has absorbed the river and its limited waters. Now the river shares in all that the sea has. The sea carries the river along; the river cannot carry itself along. The river has become one with the sea. No, the river does not have all the qualities of the sea, but it is, nonetheless, in the sea.
Truth is the source of every good thing in heaven and on earth. He who expects to be blessed and fortunate in this world should be a partaker of truth.
Virtue is, like health, the harmony of the whole man.
A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
By the accident of good fortune a man may rule the world for a time. But by virtue of love he may rule the world forever.
Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts.
There are more things in heaven and earth… than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Where Nature is sovereign, there is no need for austerity and self-denial.
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God.
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,
And daub their natural faces unaware.
True religion is the establishment by man of such a relationship to the Infinite Life around him, which, while connecting his life with Infinite Life, and directing his actions, is also in agreement with his reason and with human knowledge.
