Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
He is the living One; there is no god but He: call upon Him, giving Him sincere devotion.
