I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.
Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.
We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.
No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.
Prana (life energy) colored by the tought of the sender may be projected to persons at a distance, who are willing to receive it, and the healing can be done this way.
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.