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Learn to distinguish between Self and Truth. Self is the cause of selfishness and the source of evil; Truth cleaves to no self; it is universal and leads to justice and righteousness.
To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
What I will is fate.
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letters of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God, none of the servants.
Where belief is painful, we are slow to believe.
The fulfillment of Christ’s teaching consists in moving away from self toward God.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.
Be ahead of all parting, as though it were already behind you, like the winter that hast gone by. For among those winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control: these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
From a distance it is something; nearby it is nothing.
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope. For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
Since I’ve learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without, and the tumult of our passions within, bewilder us, and prevent us from listening. All must be silent around us, and all must be still within us, when we would listen with our whole souls to this voice. It is a still, small voice, and is only heard by those who listen to no other. Alas! How seldom is it that the soul is so still that it can hear when God speaks to it!
The wish to untie, through understanding of their true nature, the chains of selfishness and sensuality — this is the yearning for freedom.
May all I am and do return to praise the One!
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance we meet.
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior?
Don’t you remember on earth there were things too hot to touch with your finger but you could drink them all right? Shame is like that. If you will accept it — if you will drink the cup to the bottom — you will find it very nourishing; but try to do anything else with it and it scalds.
Who would not poverty for riches yield? A hovel sell to buy a treasure-field?
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Delusions, errors, and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the timbers of which are faulty, and those who embark on them are asking to be shipwrecked.
The chief result gained by experience is clearness of view. This is what distinguishes the man of mature age… it is only then that he sees things plainly, and takes them for what they really are, while in earlier years he saw a phantom-world, put together with the whims and imaginations of his own mind… the real world was hidden from him, or the vision of it distorted. The first thing that experience does is to free us from the phantoms of the mind.
