Your relationship with truth ought to be a deeply personal and direct one. To accept an agency relationship is to worship in spirit and not in truth. While there may be value in presenting another to the majesty of truth, such introductions are no more or less significant than a first date. "Let every eye …
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Your Power
You have power over your capacities of body, mind and heart - not outside events. As such, your greatest leverage lies not in focusing on factors beyond your control, but on remaining so steadfastly anchored in love and truth that you no longer submit to the temptation to resist evil. Realize this and you will …
To Be Courageous
To be courageous you need not face an army, face insurmountable odds or do the unthinkable. To be courageous you must simply face the little things which you've previously let hold you back with new resolve - the self-doubts, self-concern and self-destructive tendencies - the little foxes, in short, that spoil the vine.
Requirements of the Age
What if the world's religions were but phases of a vast and coordinated process of restoration? What if there were requirements peculiar to each age in the development of mankind, akin to the stages of maturation each individual child must go through on the way to adulthood? Were that the case it would be important …
Greater Works
"A mere theory of life, that remains but a theory, is about as useful to a man, as a gilt-edged menu is to a starving sailor on a raft in mid-ocean. It is irritating but not stimulating. No rule for higher living will help a man in the slightest, until he reach out and appropriate …
Assert the Truth
"One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive him of the profitable position by which he maintains his family; a third, because he desires to attain reputation and authority, and then use them in …
The Disconnect
I came across an interesting statement made by in London by Sir Wilfred Lawson at the last Congress of Universal Peace in 1890: I am surprised at the way religion is carried on in this country. You send a boy to Sunday school, and you tell him: 'Dear boy, you must love your enemies. If …
The Most Obvious Truth
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and …
Human Progress
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." - …
Progress
"People usually think that progress consists in the increase of knowledge, in the improvement of life, but that isn't so. Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. The truth is always accessible to a man. It can't be otherwise, because a man's soul is a divine spark, …
Gregory Hake 