Quote #60

For the current of our spiritual life, creeds and rituals are channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.

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  1. Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
  2. God finds himself by creating.
  3. Facts are many, but the truth is one.
  4. Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
  5. Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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