Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.
The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.
It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it. . . The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.
The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?
Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.
We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. . . . I will govern as a reformer.
Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?
He was a vampire now. He was supposed to have eternity. But what he had was days.