From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust. God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Corruption inside is most dangerous, so don’t be corrupt. Begin here first, not out there.
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts as Columbus to his own soul.
Direct the mind resolutely towards God, restraining the senses in their various seats, and looking on the state of the body as a matter of indifference. Realise your oneness with God, remaining continually intent on identifying with its nature…for what use is there in other, empty things?
Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
