Layers
By Unknown
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To express anger and fury would only be to get a part of the picture. Underneath anger is hurt, underneath hurt is need, underneath need is fear and underneath fear is love. It is like a pyramid of repressed feelings, which dissolves as you allow all these feelings to be expressed consciously. And it is love that is ultimately revealed.
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Connected...
By Marcus Aurelius
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A branch cut off from its neighbor branch cannot but be cut off from the whole plant. In the very same way a man severed from one man has fallen away from the fellowship of all men.
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I Will Give You a Talisman
By Mahatma Gandhi
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I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."
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Everything is Conscious...
By H. P. Blavatsky
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Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. There is but one indivisible and absolute Omniscience and Intelligence in the Universe, and this thrills throughout every atom and infinitesimal point of the whole finite Kosmos which hath no bounds, and which people call SPACE, . . .
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Places
By G. de Purucker, Golden Precept
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Quiet are the places where growth takes place. Still are the chambers where light enters the heart. Nature''s most majestic processes are silent, peaceful, quiet. All growth is quiet, and takes place without striving, in the silence. . . . It is indeed the way of heaven not to strive. Therefore do your work quietly, efficiently, easily. Be still and grow; be as active spiritually as you are quiet outwardly. Then your mind will reflect the golden splendor from the sun of light within yourself, your inner god.
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Garden of Life...
By P. Wiener, Leibniz-Selections
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.
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Life's Journey...
By Stuart Wilde
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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.
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Operations of the Human Consciousness
By Dr. de Purucker
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Now, the operations of the human consciousness are threefold, if you analyze them carefully; and these threefold operations men have designated by the words religion, philosophy, and science. . . .
They are not fundamentally different, but are like the three sides of a triangle, or like three views or ways of looking at truth, and their unified vision proclaims the recondite facts of Being.
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Victory in Defeat
By Edwin Markham
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Defeat may serve as well as victory
To shake the soul and let the glory out.
When the great oak is straining in the wind,
The boughs drink in new beauty, and the trunk
Sends down a deeper root on the windward side.
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief
Can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come
To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
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Children
By Paul Hazard
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Children are rich with all they do not own, rich with the potential wonders of their universe. Making believe is not only one of their earliest pleasures, it is their vital spark, the token of their liberty. Reason does not curb them, for they have not yet learned its restraints. Happy beings, they live in the clouds, playing lightheartedly without a care.
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Bonds of Humanity...
By St. Augustine
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There is no one in the whole human family to whom kindly affection is not due by reasons of the bond of common humanity, although it may not be due on the ground of reciprocal love.
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The Road to Happiness
By Mikhail Gorbachev
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The restructuring doesn't come easily for us. We critically assess each step we are making, test ourselves by practical results, and keenly realize that what looks acceptable and sufficient today may be obsolete tomorrow....
There is a great thirst for mutual understanding and mutual communication in the world. It is felt among politicians, it is gaining momentum among the intelli-gentsia, representatives of culture, and the public at large....
The restructuring is a must for a world overflowing with nuclear weapons; for a world ridden with serious economic and ecological problems; for a world laden with poverty, backwardness and disease; for a human race now facing the urgent need of ensuring its own survival.
We are all students, and our teacher is life and time.... We want people of every country to enjoy prosperity, welfare and happiness. The road to this lies through proceeding to a nuclear-free, non-violent world
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The Art of Giving
By Kent Nerburn-Letters to my Son
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Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom and other lay brown beneath the August sun.
Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices in life no more easily made.
And give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than how it is shared, and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
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The Path...
By Kirbi Van Mater
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Life is the great teacher, and the first step in discipline is to learn how to bring spiritual values into daily living. Some of the qualities needed and sought are love for all, harmony, patience, indifference to personal pleasure or pain, and courage to pursue truth.
Consistent practice of these virtues cuts the bonds holding us within our limited field of experience and works the change from personal awareness to universal values.
This is the "secret" path or way that if faithfully pursued reconciles man with God and makes the outer and the inner man be at one. We then discover that we already are what we would become.
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No Boundaries...
By James A. Long
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Those of us who profess to have a sincere desire to add our mite to the betterment of man should ask ourselves: are we interested solely in the light which these great ideas can shed on our own limited environment, or are we moved to live and work so that the sun of truth may shine in the souls of all men everywhere?
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Humanity...
By Howard Thurman
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To speak of the love for humanity is meaningless. There is no such thing as humanity. What we call humanity has a name, was born, lives on a street, gets hungry, needs all the particular things we need. As an abstract, it has no reality whatsoever.
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Be Where You Are...
By Rabbi M.M. Schneerson
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In each Journey of your life, you must Be, where you are.
You may be passing through on your way to somewhere else seemingly more important - nevertheless, there is purpose in where you are right now.
If only for the purpose of reaching the next step, be entirely dedicated to what you are doing now, so you reach the next step in the most complete and perfect way possible.
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Universal Guidance...
By The Secret Doctrine i, 274-276
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The universe is worked and guided from within outwards. As above so it is below, as in heaven so on earth; and man -- the microcosm and miniature copy of the macrocosm -- is the living witness to this Universal Law and to the mode of its action. We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. . . . The whole Kosmos is guided, controlled, and animated by almost endless series of Hierarchies of sentient Beings, each having a mission to perform, and who -- whether we give to them one name or another, and call them Dhyan-Chohans or Angels -- are ''messengers'' in the sense only that they are the agents of Karmic and Cosmic Laws. They vary infinitely in their respective degrees of consciousness and intelligence. . . .
Man . . . being a compound of the essences of all those celestial Hierarchies may succeed in making himself, as such, superior, in one sense, to any hierarchy or class, or even combination of them.
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Examine Yourselves...
By G. de Purucker
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Examine yourselves; realize that there is divinity within you, call it by what name you please. . . . Examine your own inner movements of consciousness, and you will know that these things of glory are in you. They are the working in you of your inner god, your spiritual inner sun.
This is the message of the great Sages and Seers of all the ages. . . .
. . . that living fire of consciousness within your breast which tells you of your oneness with all that is, and of your kinship with everything that is; for verily you are akin to the gods who are the rulers and counselors and governors of the Universe.
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The Meaning of Time
By unknown
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To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.
To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.
To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.
To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
who has given birth to
A premature baby.
To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize
The value of one second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have.
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Fire and Water...
By Rabbi Laibl Wolf
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Fire and water are two of our most precious spiritual attributes. Allow wisdom to flow like water, downwards, to those below you. Allow passion to fire and animate those whose potential is to soar above you.
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Absolute Consciousness...
By H. P. Blavatsky
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Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].
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What Makes Us Valiant...
By Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
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It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant.
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Crescendo of Sensation...
By William James
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In every crescendo of sensation, in every effort to recall, in every progress towards the satisfaction of desire, this succession of an emptiness and fullness that have reference to each other and are one flesh is the essence of the phenomenon.
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That Which You Cannot Imagine...
By Rumi
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I died from the mineral kingdom and became a plant;
I died to vegetable nature and became an animal;
I died to animality and became a human being.
Next time I will die to human nature and lift up my head among the angels.
Once again I will leave angelic nature and become that which you cannot imagine.
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Remote Knowledge...
By John Milton
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We boast our light, but if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
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Attitude...
By Charles Swindal
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The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. It is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than whatever anyone may say or do. It is more important than appearances, giftedness or skill. The remarkable thing is that we have the choice to create the attitude we have for that day.
We cannot change our past. We cannot change the way people act. We cannot change the inevitable. The one thing we can change is the only thing we have any control over, and that is our attitude. I''m convinced that life is 10% what actually happens to us, and 90% how we react to it.
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Time is But a Stream...
By Henry David Thoreau
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost- 1875
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TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
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Universal Connection...
By Immanuel Kant
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. I have not to search for them and conjecture them as though they were veiled in darkness or were in the transcendent region beyond my horizon; I see them before me and connect them directly with the consciousness of my existence. The former begins from the place I occupy in the external world of sense, and enlarges my connection therein to an unbounded extent with worlds upon worlds and systems of systems, and moreover into limitless times of their periodic motion, its beginning and continuance. The second begins from my invisible self, my personality, and exhibits me in a world which has true infinity, but which is traceable only by the understanding, and with which I discern that I am not in a merely contingent, but in a universal and necessary, connection, as I am also thereby with all those visible worlds.
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Before Retiring...
By Katherine Tingley
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Let us end the day with more power of thought for self-conquest than we had at the beginning of the day.
Let us close our eyes tonight with a clean conscience, and with a feeling of generous love for all that breathes, which is the best side of our natures.
Let us seek more knowledge, more light, more strength, in the silence of our last thoughts before retiring.
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Voluntary Obedience...
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And so I think that the last lesson of life, the choral song which rises from all elements and all angels, is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom. Man is made of the same atoms as the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.
The laws are his consolers: the good laws themselves are alive, they know if he have kept them, they animate him with the leading of great duty, and an endless horizon.
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One is the Whole...
By Albert Einstein
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A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature.
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Humanity - a Class of Gods...
By John Van Mater, Jr.
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Despite its destructive tendencies, humanity is a class of young gods, part of Gaia''s spiritual heart, the Hierarchy of Compassion. There are no simple, rapid cures for blindness and selfishness, for we need time to mature spiritually. Our ethics can reflect universal brotherhood -- seeing all beings as divinities and thus loved as sacred. Creative solutions to current global challenges may fuse future sciences with the arts and religion, supporting an ageless wisdom. Our capacity to live compassionately with other beings should naturally follow.
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The Opposite of Life is not Death...
By Elie Wiesel
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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Karma...
By William Quan Judge
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Karma is both merciful and just. Mercy and Justice are only opposite poles of a single whole; and Mercy without Justice is not possible in the operations of Karma. That which man calls Mercy and Justice is defective, errant, and impure.
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Thou Shall Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself...
By Rabbi Israel Baal Shem-Tov
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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
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Wind Merges Into the Wind...
By Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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The wind merges into the wind. The light blends into the light. The dust
becomes one with the dust. What support is there for the one who is
lamenting? Who has died? O, who has died? Meet together with the
God-realized, and inquire into this. What a wondrous thing has happened!
No one knows what happens after death. The one who is lamenting will
also arise and depart. Mortal beings are bound by the bonds of doubt
and attachment. When life becomes a dream, the blind man babbles and
grieves in vain. The Creator Being created this creation. It comes and
goes, subject to the Divine Will. No one dies; no one is capable of dying.
The Soul does not perish; it is imperishable. That which is known, does
not exist. I am a sacrifice to the one who knows this. Says Nanak, the Guru
has dispelled my doubt. No one dies; no one comes or goes (sggs 885).
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Gate of Heaven...
By Thomas Traherne
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The world is a Mirror of Infinite Beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a Region of Light and Peace, did not man disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God . . . the Place of Angels and the Gate of Heaven.
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No Man is an Island...
By John Donne
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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less...any man''''s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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About Giving and Taking...
By Kahlil Gibran
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Go your fields and see:
It is joyous for the bee to gather the sweetness of the flower, and the flower gratefully gives his sweetness.
For the bee, the flower is life and for the flower the bee is a messenger of love.
I wish we all were like the flowers and the bees.
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End Of Sorrow
By Bhagavad Gita 2:64-65
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But when you move amidst the world free attachment and
Aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrow end;
And you live in the wisdom of the Self.
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Everlasting...
By Louise L. Hay
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The sun is always shining. Even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for a while, the sun is always shining. The sun never stops shining. And even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it really never stops shining.
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Truth...
By H. P. Balavatzky
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The whole essence of truth cannot
be transmitted from mouth
to ear. Nor can any pen describe it, not even
that of the recording Angel, unless
man finds the answer in the sanctuary
of his own Heart, in the innermost
depths of his divine intuition.
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Divine Essence
By Katherine Tingley
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ALL that is true and noble and beautiful is mirrored
at times in the aspirations of our thought-life.
But no man can make these aspirations a part
of his daily conduct by depending
solely on an intellectual grasp of life’s
meaning. It is utterly
impossible until man accepts
himself as a being divine in essence.
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Prism
By H. P. Balavatzki
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As the white light is decomposed by the
prism into the various colors of the solar spectrum,
so the beam of divine truth, in passing through the
three-sided prism of man''s nature, has broken
up into vari-colored fragments called Religions.
Combined, their aggregate represents one eternal truth;
separate, they are but shades of human error and the
signs of imperfection.
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The Right Hour...
By William Q. Judge
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Nothing is gained, but a good deal is lost
by impatience - not only strength, but also
Sight and intuition. So decide nothing hastily.
Wait; make no set plan. Wait for the hour to
make the decision, for if you decide in advance
of the time you tend to raise a confusion.
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World Regeneration
By Charles Kingsley
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The only way to regenerate the world is to
do the duty which lies nearest to us, and
not to hunt after grand, far-fetched ones for
ourselves. If each drop of rain chose where it
should fall, God''s showers would not fall as they
do now, on the evil and on the good alike.
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Success of the Heart
By Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
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