While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.

The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.