Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world.
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.
Christmas is at our throats again.