Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
Interpretation
Share your spiritual insights with others and appreciate what they give back to you.
This quote emphasizes the importance of sharing your spiritual knowledge and emotional experiences with others who are on a similar journey. It encourages open communication and the idea that relationships are enriched by both giving and receiving, making the connection between individuals a precious part of the collective journey.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a group therapy session focused on sharing collective experiences.
I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.
Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.
The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.
I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.
A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.
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