unless he happens to have seen it. So also we. [That God is, we know, but what in substance we know not yet.] We are then, as it were, a royal censer, breathing whithersoever we go of the heavenly ointment and spiritual sweet fragrance...
It’s interesting that in traditions which emphasise original sin or the essential depravity of human nature, the conditioned “self” is often seen as the only defence against underlying fallibility or evil. Such traditions often express a distrust of the meditative process and warn their adherents...
It was all dim and vague, but always there is the dark shadow of crime behind it. One other neighbour I have met since I wrote last. This is Mr. Frankland, of Lafter Hall, who lives some four miles to the south of us. He is an elderly man, red-faced, white-haired, and...
Is to court disaster. He who knows the Eternal Law is tolerant; Being tolerant, he is impartial; Being impartial, he is kingly; Being kingly, he is in accord with Nature; Being in accord with Nature, he is in accord with Tao; Being in accord ...
1、Stop struggling, life is stopped. 停止奋斗,生命也就停止了。 2、God gives us evil at the same time, also give us conquer evil weapons. 神赋予我们恶的同时,也给我们征服恶的武器。 3、Any a labor is a noble, lofty career only labor. ...
“It was papa made me leave. I am a boy and I must obey him.” “I know,”the old man said.“It is quite normal.” “He hasn't much faith.” “No,”the old man said.“But we have. Haven't we?” “Yes,”the boy said.“Can I offer you a beer on the Terrace and then...
always returned. I had even bargained with an Ahamkara and, I thought, come out ahead. What I had wished for was a teacher greater than me.But I did not know my self. I could find myself, certainly, but the map is not the territory. Just because I could locate Ikora Rey did not...
thrilled and frightened me. I’d always known that I would grow differently than my brothers, but I’d never thought about what that might mean. Now it was all I thought about. I began to look for cues to understand this difference, and once I started looking, I found them everywhere....
It is the gratification of vanity which is, with us, the stimulus of toil, and balm of repose; so closely does it touch the very springs of life that the wounding of our vanity is always spoken of (and truly) as in its measure mortal; we call it "mortification," using the same ...
and the judgment is at rest. Soon he came to a parting of the ways; leading from the highway was a road less traveled, having the appearance, indeed, of having been long abandoned, because, he thought, it led to something evil; yet he turned into it without hesitation, impelled by ...