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If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the
quiet acceptance of what is.".
If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the
quiet acceptance of what is.".
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure read more
Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring
all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a
faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping
and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,
that I can do, any kindness that read more
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,
that I can do, any kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do it
now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to
life.
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to
life.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your
dominant aspiration.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your
dominant aspiration.
