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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.
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.
Behold but One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray.
My friends, how desperately do we need to be loved and to love. Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world. We turn inward and begin to feed upon our own personalities, and little by little we destroy ourselves. With it we are creating. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.
No matter where you place it, gold is gold.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch… you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
In the same degree in which a man’s mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
