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Entering Into the Infinite

For such people there is no more regret, or disappointment, or remorse, for where all selfishness has ceased, these sufferings cannot be; and whatever happens to them, they know that it is for their own good and they are content, being no longer the servant of self but the servant of the Supreme...

The Realization of Selfless Love

“Train your mind in strong, impartial, and gentle thought; train your heart in purity and compassion: train your tongue to silence and to true and stainless speech; so shall you enter the way of holiness and peace and shall ultimately realize immortal love.”

The Acquisition of Spiritual Power

“To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.”

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul;
Truth is the only angel that can bid the gates unroll;
And when he comes to call thee, arise and follow fast;
His way may lie through darkness, but it leads to light at last.

The Two Masters, Self and Truth

There is one quality which preeminently distinguishes people of truth from the people of self, and that is humility. Not only to be free from vanity, stubbornness, and egotism but to regard one’s own opinions as of no value, this indeed is tru humility.

Those who are immersed in self regard their own opinions as truth, and the opinions of others as error.

Five Great Meditations

1. Meditation of Love
2. Meditation of Pity
3. Meditation of Joy
4. Meditation of Impurity
5. Meditation of Serenity

Lose yourself in the welfare of others; forget yourself in all that you do; this is the secret of abounding happiness.

The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

Taking the first step with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise.” And you also may enter into Paradise by pursuing the same course. It is not beyond; it is here. It is realized only by the unselfish. It is known in its fullness only to the pure in heart.

Happiness is that inward state of perfect satisfaction which is joy and peace, and from which all desire is eliminated. The satisfaction that results from gratified desire is brief and illusionary and is always followed by an increase demand for gratification.

When you are willing to admit that your unhappiness is the result of your own selfishness, you will not be far from the gates of Paradise; but so long as you are convinced that it is the selfishness of others thais robbing you of joy, so long will you remain a prisoner in your self-created purgatory.