Occupation: Journalist Birth: October 21, 1898 Death: July 27, 1981
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much….
You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient..
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative e….
All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, techn….
Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction..
Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew..
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines..
Your self is sacred; be true to it..
Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-lik….
Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the….
The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and….
When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvio….
Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and ….
Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human….
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or ….
The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration..
The world is our school for spiritual discovery..
Study everything, join nothing..
Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own….
Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness..
Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts i….