Regaining Perspective

An absence of perspective can be devastating in its consequences. It can, for example, lead to a situation in which the dominant species of a planet - the only one known to be inhabited - located in a remote backwater of the universe, can indulge in its darkest, most reckless and destructive impulses, plunging the world into chaos and threatening the very survival of its only home and the continued existence of every life form that has the misfortune to share the same sky and breath the same air.

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Treat Yourself

By restoring his nature to unity, nourishing his vital energy and concentrating his essence, he will penetrate to the origin of things. In that state, in which his heavenly nature is contained completely within itself and his spirit is undivided, how could anything else penetrate?

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Intellect Crazy

That is fine if you want nothing more from life than the journey, as a personality, from the cradle to the grave. But it is not fine at all - it is crazy - if you are seeking and aiming at the life of absolute reality. For you cannot possibly participate in, or gain access to, the great reality with your intellectual consciousness.

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Teresa of Avila, Transcending, Liking, and Love

Now it seems to me that those whom God brings to a certain clear knowledge, love very differently than do those who have not reached it. This clear knowledge is about the nature of the world, that there is another world, about the difference between the one and the other, that the one is eternal and the other a dream.

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Faith

The key to the Path is faith, that is to say : the union of the spirit-spark atom in the heart with the pure Divine light. When this gate has been opened and the new power can enter the system of the pupil and work in him, he is ready for the path of renewal.

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