As long as I act upon my own intuition, I succeed, but whenever I follow the advice of others I go astray. An eel would not do well to ask directions to the Sargasso Sea from a pike or a trout. Deep down in its viscera, it already knows the way. Its best course is […]
“Every soul stands before me as a world, and the light of my spirit falling upon it brings clearly to my view all it contains.” Would there be a world if there were no witnesses? It is the perceiving of the world that makes it a world. And as there are many perceivers, there are, […]
I have learned more by my faults than by my merits. If I acted always aright, I could not be human. We might have been created as flawless beings in a flawless world. But we were not, and for a reason. In a placidly perfect world, there would be no discovery. There is a unique […]
A fall does not break or discourage me, it only raises me to a new life. Saint Paul says, “what you sow does not come to life unless it dies” (1 Corinthians 15:36). A seed must break apart in the earth if it is to unfurl and send up a stalk. Destruction is intrinsic to […]
“I consider myself second to none since I have realized in myself the One Alone.” Status is a worry that troubles many minds. Individuals and communities perpetually vie for dominance, scrambling to occupy higher echelons in the scheme of the world. Racism, classism, sexism, bigotry—these are all the byproducts of the common urge to be […]
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