Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that true existence and fulfillment can only be found in God, who is described as the source of all individuality and depth.
In this quote, Schlegel expresses the idea that eternal life and a deeper understanding of existence are intrinsically linked to God. He implies that all spiritual entities reside within the divine, portraying God as an abyss of individuality and an endless source of richness or plenitude. This perspective invites reflection on the relationship between the divine and the human experience, stressing the importance of seeking spiritual truth in the divine for a complete and fulfilled life.
In practice
During a church sermon discussing the importance of divine connection.
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of Godβs humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.
Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!
I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
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