Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?

And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness to the colonization of Nature of Reason.