At the top of the ladder is awareness, or pure experience - the edge of yourself, and possibly the beginning of God. |
Beauty is the only uncreated thing you can experience apart from God. |
Each moment provides a challenge to you to become conscious. The game is to be waiting, and aware. |
If God exists, God can be experienced; but only by you. |
IF YOU LOOK at life's totality you will notice that every living thing exists for something else. |
It is only because you are a machine that you suffer; and the purpose of suffering is to wake you up. |
Love is a power, a mighty principle that exists in its own right independent of any individual. |
Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it. |
Love is beyond description; but not beyond demonstrating. |
Man conscious is man immortal. Man conscious gives to the creation as no other thing can give and is beyond death. But it is no use my just saying this. You must discover it, realize it for yourself. |
Many mystics have said, and it is true, that anything you see is not God. Anything you think is not God, neither are visions, lights, moving objects or anything else. Any sensation or feeling is not God. They are all the products of the creation or your imagination. |
No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth. |
On the way to God you have to pass through beauty, pure beauty. If you do not pass through beauty it is not God that you find. |
One of the greatest steps in self-discovery is to see that you are a machine. Only the few who have real knowledge will admit to being machines. |
Reason does not need thinking. If you observe yourself making a plan you will notice that having fixed the object, the facts just keep coming, linking up into a chain of proposed action. |