Jewels in the Lotus: insights, inspirations, and illuminations from the rich heritage of the world’s wisdom traditions, which is the common inheritance of the family of man.
The way that can be told is not the eternal Way. The word that can be spoken is not the eternal Word. Unnamed, It is the source of heaven and earth. Named, It is the Mother of all things. He... Read more
Christ sets His followers no tasks. He appoints no hours. He allots no sphere. He Himself simply went about and did good. He did not stop life to do some special things should be called reli... Read more
GREAT MAGNET! Thy hidden power Draws us ever onward to spaces anew. Secret in the earth They life-forces waken Stirrings and whispers that the ear cannot hear; Later will come birth in the f... Read more
It is within and without all creatures animate and inanimate; it is inconceivable because of its subtlety, and although near it is afar off. Although undivided it appeareth as divided among... Read more
True knowledge has to be gained through an increasing perception of the universality of all law and the universal line of progress for every being of whatever grade. We have to think and pra... Read more
The meditation they urged on us has been explained as the ‘inexpressible yearnings of the inner man to go out into the infinite.’ But that Infinite we would enter is living. It... Read more
Let man consider who he is and what he should and must become… Man needs more than common intelligence to know who he is; only he who studies him properly and knows whence he comes and... Read more
Holy men dance and wheel on the spiritual battlefield. They dance in their own blood. When they are freed from the dominion of self, they clap a hand; When they transcend their own imperfec... Read more
A song of the rolling earth, and the words according. Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots? No, those are not the words, the substanti... Read more
Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep. Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering? They are not such poor calculators. If they had not b... Read more