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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.
To will what God wills is the only science that gives us rest.
Man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested. There is power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communications… This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality, so subtle, so quiet, yet so tenacious, that although I have never expressed the truth, and although I have never heard the expression of it from any other, I know that the whole truth is here for me.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within. Whatever we do to the well, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?
If you walk toward Him, He comes to you running.
From this kind of knowledge arises the most perfect satisfaction and contentment.
There are two futures, one in time and one in scale, one horizontal — the other vertical and always there, just above our present state.
The kingdom of heaven is within.
The mirror is thoroughly egoless and mindless. If a flower comes it reflects a flower, if a bird comes it reflects a bird. It shows a beautiful object as beautiful, an ugly object as ugly. Everything is revealed as it is. There is no discriminating mind or self-consciousness on the part of the mirror. If something comes, the mirror reflects. If it disappears, the mirror just lets it disappear… no traces of anything are left behind. Such non-attachment, the state of no-mind, or the truly free working of a mirror is compared here to the pure and lucid wisdom of Buddha.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
The Strong One
I am strong like darkness.
When I spread myself over the world,
you do not see anything else but me.
I am strong like light.
When I spread myself over the world,
you see everything but me.
Sharing in the divine fullness is such that it makes whoever achieves it ever greater, more illimitable, so as never to cease growing, because the spring of all reality flows ceaselessly. The being of anyone who shares in it is increased in grandeur by all that springs up within, so that the capacity for receiving grows along with the abundance of good gifts received.
Love is not an art like poetry, possible only to the few endowed for it, it is open and accessible to all.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place.
Thou art my life: I the brook, thou the spring.
The Peace you long for also longs for you.
Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.
Paradise is still in the world, but a man is not in Paradise unless he is born again of God; in that case he stands in his new birth.
Beshrew me but I love her heartily;
For she is wise, if I can judge of her,
And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,
And true she is, as she hath proved herself,
And therefore, like herself, wise, fair, and true,
Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
A Creed for Those Who Have Suffered
I asked God for strength that I might achieve…
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health that I might do greater things…
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked for riches that I might be happy…
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men…
I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life…
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I asked for…
But everything I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered.
I am among all men most richly blessed.
How does the ocean become the king of all rivers and streams? Because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me, in those who harbor such thoughts hatred will never leave… for hatred ceases not by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love.
Happy is the man that findeth Wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies; and all things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
