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Share in the accounts and discoveries of the many individuals who, just like you, set out to find new, true answers that could stand up to the test of passing time with its ever-changing conditions. Welcome these inward and uplifting thoughts as if they were your own, for in one sense… they are.
It is not far, it is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know.
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. Nothing.
The Way that can be named is not the Way.
The great challenge is living your wounds through instead of thinking them through. It is better to cry than to worry, better to feel your wounds deeply than to try to understand them, better to let them enter into your silence than to talk about them. The choice you face constantly is whether you are taking your hurts to your head or to your heart.
Why do you take by force what you could obtain by love?
All is whole;
Not one word more of the consumed time.
Let’s take the instant by the forward top;
For we are old, and on our quick’st decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
Steals ere we can effect them.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
We speak of definite truth which you can know by experience.
The mind is the master over every kind of fortune; it acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and its own misery.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
To learn to look away from oneself is necessary in order to see many things.
If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
The inner life is the root of the outer one. What is created there, is eventually expressed here.
This is a country whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. You do not find it by travelling but by standing still. Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
In every enterprise, consider where you will come out.
Consider, O discerning man, that you are the image of God and the bond of all creation, both of the heavenly and the terrestrial beings, and whenever you bend your head to worship and glorify God, all the creations, both heavenly and terrestrial, bow their heads with you and in you, to worship God. And whenever you do not worship and glorify Him, all the creations grieve over you and turn against you, and you will fall from grace.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
She followed the firefly, which, like herself, was seeking the way out. If it did not know the way, it was yet light; and, because all light is one, any light may serve to guide to more light.
If you devote your time to study, you will avoid all the irksome things of life, and you will not long for the approach of night, being tired of the day, and you will not be a burden to yourself, and your company will be acceptable to others.
The endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
