Essays, First SeriesD. McKay, 1891 - 304 pages |
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Page 60
... ness and meanness . It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after ...
... ness and meanness . It is the harder , because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after ...
Page 74
... ness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty of the soul . Time and space are ...
... ness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being ? Whence then this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty of the soul . Time and space are ...
Page 86
... effect a private end , is theft and mean- ness . It supposes dualism and not unity in na- ture and consciousness . As soon as the man is at one with God , he will not beg . He will then see prayer in all action . The prayer of 86 ESSAY II .
... effect a private end , is theft and mean- ness . It supposes dualism and not unity in na- ture and consciousness . As soon as the man is at one with God , he will not beg . He will then see prayer in all action . The prayer of 86 ESSAY II .
Page 110
... ness to the light , and always outrun that sym- pathy which gives him such keen satisfaction , by his fidelity to new revelations of the incessant soul . He must hate father and mother , wife and child . Has he all that the world loves ...
... ness to the light , and always outrun that sym- pathy which gives him such keen satisfaction , by his fidelity to new revelations of the incessant soul . He must hate father and mother , wife and child . Has he all that the world loves ...
Page 162
... ness to himself , truly seeking himself in his as- sociates , and moreover in his trade , and habits , and gestures , and meats , and drinks ; and comes at last to be faithfully represented by every view you take of his circumstances ...
... ness to himself , truly seeking himself in his as- sociates , and moreover in his trade , and habits , and gestures , and meats , and drinks ; and comes at last to be faithfully represented by every view you take of his circumstances ...
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Page 72 - We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organs of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams.
Page 293 - From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
Page 294 - God comes to see us without bell;" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God.
Page 18 - Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Page 305 - A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light.
Page 51 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Page 160 - God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened ; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
Page 120 - All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat ; an eye for an eye ; a tooth for a tooth ; blood for blood ; measure for measure ; love for love. — Give and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.
Page 107 - Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole of the heart...
Page 64 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.