The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. |
The more we have the less we own. |
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. |
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. |
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. |
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. |
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God. |
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. |
There is no stopping place in this life -- nor is there ever one for any man, no matter how far along his way he's gone. |
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time. |
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. |
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. |
To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since, however, we cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we must learn to keep God I everything we do, and whatever the job or place, keep on with him, letting nothing stand in our way. |
To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind. |
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us |