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Here you will read the innermost thoughts and feelings of inspired seekers who have gone before you. Some names you may know… others you will be glad to meet!
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Who is it that is to become free? You, I, we. Free from what? From everything that is not you, not I, not we. I, therefore, am the seed that is to be freed from all wrappings, and free from all confining shells.
Man’s sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.
Courage comes next to prudence as a quality of mind very essential to happiness… Our motto should be “No Surrender,” and far from yielding to the ills of life, let us take fresh courage from misfortune… Let our attitude be such that we would not quake even if the world fell in ruins about us.
When the ship does not yield to the rudder, it yields to the rock.
Few people are wise enough to prefer useful reproof to treacherous praise.
A horse which is harnessed to a wagon along with other horses is not free… The same situation is true of man.
How can He grant you what you do not desire to receive?
You hurt people outside of you because you hurt inside of you.
Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
I saw that all things which occasioned me any anxiety or fear had in themselves nothing of good or evil, except in so far as the mind was moved by them.
We know that when the rich man asked how he could gain eternal life the answer was: “If you will be perfect follow me.” The meaning, in the Greek, is to reach one’s goal. “Sin” meant, in the original, “missing the mark.” The psychological idea emerges quite clearly when we consider the real meaning of these two words. The goal is to perfect oneself, to become complete, and sin is all that that causes one to miss the goal.
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
It is only a religious mind, a mind that is enquiring into itself, that is aware of its own movements, its own activity, which is the beginning of self-knowledge — it is only such a mind that is a revolutionary mind. And a revolutionary mind is a mutating mind is the religious mind.
What a brave privilege it is to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think about, for the spirit is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts.
My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.
Whoso bendeth himself shall be straightened. Whoso emptieth himself shall be filled. Whoso weareth himself away shall be renewed. Whoso humbleth himself shall be exalted. Whoso exalteth himself shall be abased. Therefore doth the Sage cling to simplicity.
Each man reaps on his own farm.