The Ascent To The Divine Life Is

You Have However Within You An Inclination Towards Completeness.

She Saw Too That Man Has The Power Of Exceeding Himself, Of Becoming Himself More Entirely And Profoundly Than He Is, - Truths Which Have Only Recently Begun To Be Seen In Europe And Seem Even Now Too Great For Its Common Intelligence.

To Play With Baubles Is Our Ambition, Not To Deal With Grave Questions In A Spirit Of Serious Energy. But While We Are Playing With Baubles, With Our Legislative Councils, Our Simultaneous Examinations, Our Ingenious Schemes For Separating The Judicial From The Executive Functions, - While We, I Say, Are Finessing About Trifles, The Waters Of The Great Deep Are Being Stirred And That Surging Chaos Of The Primitive Man Over Which Our Civilised Societies Are Superimposed On A Thin Crust Of Convention, Is Being Strangely And Ominously Agitated.

Sit In Meditation ! But Do Not Think ! Look Only At Your Mind ! You Will See Thoughts Coming Into It ! Before They Can Enter, Throw These Away From Your Mind Till Your Mind Is Capable Of Entire Silence.

And, In Order To Possess The Truth, The Plays Of The Lower Nature Must Be Stopped.