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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.
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.
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.
One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. They seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there’s really only one work.
I will not move until I have the highest command… Your virtuous projects, so called, do not cheer me. I know that which shall come will cheer me. If I cannot work, at least I need not lie. All that is clearly due today is not to lie.
A great spirit is above insult, injustice, grief, and mockery.
The world is not a collection of separate objects but rather appears as a web of relations between the various parts of a unified whole.
I don’t want to think a place for you.
Speak to me from everywhere.
Your Gospel can be comprehended
without looking for its source.
Love, true love, which is the very essence of the human soul — that love which is revealed by Christ’s teaching — precludes the possibility of any idea of any kind of violence.
I would study, I would know, I would admire forever. These works of thought have been the entertainments of the human spirit in all ages.
His individual dignity, not derived from birth, from success, from wealth, from outward show, but consisting in the indestructible principles of his soul — this ought to enter into his habitual consciousness.
Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
