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The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
The Prophet (1923)
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”
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Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.
Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.