From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust. God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Even as a mirror reflects an object held close to it, one’s behavior reflects as the ego-sense in one’s consciousness. But if held at a distance, ego-sense does not arise.
Only the person having firm conviction and iron volition can attain strength and energy. At no stage of karma does he ever hesitate.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. Strength may be physical, or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
