and Ancient Knowledge
and 
The world is our school for spritual discovery.Who has no faults? To err and
yet be able to correct isReal learning comes about when
the competitive spirit has ceased . . . This is true not only
of competition with others, but competition with yourself.If you have love you will do
all things well.The man of virtue makes the difficulty
to be overcome his first business, and the success only a subsequent
consideration.Your work is to discover your
work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.The purpose of the whole is to
remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness
and lead them to the state of blessedness.Only a life lived for others
is a life worthwhile.The wisdom of enlightenment is
inherent in every one of us. It is because of the delusion under
which our mind works that we fail to realize it ourselves, and
that we have to seek the advice and the guidance of enlightened
ones.The first rule is to keep an
untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and
know them for what they are.The light of God surrounds me,
The love of God enfolds me, The power of God protects me, The
presence of God watches over me, Whatever I am, God is.Know Thyself.Do not cherish the unworthy desire
that the changeable might become the unchanging.If we walk the true way in our
inmost heart, even without praying, God will be with us!Life must be lived as a play.You
give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when
you give of yourself that you truly give.Giving is the secret of abundance.The quality of our expectations
determines the quality of our actions.You cannot direct which way the
winds of adversity will blow, but you can adjust your sails.With awareness, the mystery is
perceived......Without awareness we live only in a world of our
own illusion.Whatsoever things you desire,
believe and you shall have them.The first and best victory is
to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the
most shameful and vile.Love is the great solvent of
all difficulties, all problems, all misunderstandings.While the body perishes the Spirit
is immortal. We are here to realize we are Spirit.Faith
is a simple childlike belief in a Divine Friend who solves all
problems that come to us.If a man advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Love and compassion are necessities,
not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.Concentrated power is silence.
Diffused power is noise.....When you reach the place of silence
in mind, you have reached the place of power, the place where
all is one.Every stone that bruises the
pilgrim's foot will teach him a lesson. Every lesson will yield
a pearl.The salvation of man is through
love and in love.One of the simplest things about
all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must
keep on keeping on.Man
cannot discover new oceans until he has the courage to lose sight
of the shore.Next to the knowledge of God
nothing is so precious as the knowledge of Self.