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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!
Shade said to Shadow, “A little while ago, you were moving, and now you are standing still. A little while ago, you were sitting down, and now you are getting up. Why all this indecision?”
Shadow replied, “Don’t I have to depend on others to be what I am? Don’t others also have to depend on something else to be what they are? My dependence is like that of the snake on his skin, or of the cicada on his wing. How can I tell why I do this, or why I do that?”
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
More and more our sincere seeker realizes his need to do nothing except to be an aware person from moment to moment. In one flash of insight he banishes the awful compulsion to scheme, protect, avoid, revise, attack, grab, cling, retreat, resist, regret, worry, expect, struggle, insist, demand, crave, battle, blame, apologize, persuade, believe. The whole terrible burden is cleared away. In its place he has quiet awareness.
Many people want to serve God, mostly in an advisory capacity.
To be happy means to be self-sufficient.
He is wise who is wise to himself.
Our thinking machine possesses the capacity to be convinced of anything you like, provided it is repeatedly and persistently influenced in the required direction. A thing that may appear absurd to start with will in the end become rationalized, provided it is repeated sufficiently often and with sufficient conviction.
Do not do to others that which would anger you if others did it to you.
Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded.
Why does no man confess his vices? Because he is still in them. It is for a waking man to tell of his dreams.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labors in his field, but did not sow.
If man were a unity instead of being a multiplicity, he would have true individuality.
This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up.
Whatever is not yours, abandon it. When you have abandoned it, that will lead to your welfare and happiness for a long time.
What is it that is not yours? Material form is not yours. Abandon it. When you have abandoned it, that will lead to your welfare and happiness for a long time.
A few golden apples are rolled, and the world scrambles after them. You were never bound by laws, Nature never had a bond for you… We have placed ourselves in this net, and will have to get out… Never forget this is only a momentary state, and that we have to pass through it.
God is gathering us out of all regions till he can make resurrection of our own hearts from the very earth, and teach us that we are all of one substance, and members of one another. For the one who loves his neighbor loves God, and the one who loves God, loves his own soul.
The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and “consolers,” offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become torturers by virtue of their very morality, and in so doing, while claiming to be advocates of God, they act as instruments of the devil.