Quote #18

Breathe 'God,' in any tongue -it means the same; LOVE ABSOLUTE: Think, feel, absorb the thought; Shut out all else; until a subtle flame (A spark from God's creative centre caught) Shall permeate your being, and shall glow, Increasing in its splendour, till, YOU KNOW.

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  1. Not to the curious or impatient soul That in the start, demands the end be shown, And at each step, stops waiting for a sign; But to the ti…
  2. Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer, Of courage and success, to friend and stranger. And from a thousand sources, far and …
  3. If fallacies come knocking at my door, I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score, Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt, And run the…
  4. Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There t…
  5. Look to the Great Eternal Cause And not to any man, for light. Look in; and learn the wrong, and right, From your own soul's unwritten laws…
  6. Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith -these three alone are great.
  7. You may choose your word like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that com…
  8. Who climbs the mountain does not always climb. The winding road slants downward many a time; Yet each descent is higher than the last.

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