Man Is Small, And, Therefore, Small Is

...liberation From Constraints That Operate At The Level Of Ordinary Humanity---limits Imposed By Space And Time, By The Needs Of The Body, And By The Opaqueness Of The Computer-like Mind. All Three Examples [jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, And Therese Neumann] Illustrates The Paradoxical Truth That Such 'higher Powers' Cannot Be Acquired By Any Kind Of Attack Or Conquest Conducted By The Human Personality; Only When The Striving For 'power' Has Entirely Ceased And Been Replaced By A Certain Transcendental Longing, Often Called The Love Of God, May They, Or May They Not Be 'added Unto You.

Infinite Growth Of Material Consumption In A Finite World Is An Impossibility.

The Most Striking About Modern Industry Is That It Requires So Much And Accomplishes So Little. Modern Industry Seems To Be Inefficient To A Degree That Surpasses One's Ordinary Powers Of Imagination. Its Inefficiency Therefore Remains Unnoticed.

It Has Been Universally Recognized, In All Authentic Teachings Of Mankind, That Every Being Born Into This World Has To Work, Not Merely To Keep Himself Alive, But To Strive Towards Perfection.

The Best Aid To Give Is Intellectual Aid, A Gift Of Useful Knowledge. A Gift Of Knowledge Is Infinitely Preferable To A Gift Of Material Things.