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She talked nineteen to the dozen, and dragged in things that had happened ten years before.
What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by.
“Learn what dwells in man.” And I understood that in man dwells Love! I
“The man is making preparations for a year and does not know that he will die before evening.” And I remembered God’s second saying, “Learn what is not given to man.”
And all men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man.
all men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man.
If you get a hard word from any one, keep silent, and his own conscience will accuse him.
the best way to keep one’s vows to God and to do His will, is for each man while he lives to show love and do good to others.
‘When you have rid the world of as much evil as you have brought into it, you will have atoned both for your own sins and for those of the robber.’
‘Go to there, don’t know where,” and bring back “that, don’t know what!”
‘You can’t earn stone palaces by honest labour,’
Life knows neither time nor space. The life of a moment and the life of a thousand years, your life and the life of all the visible and invisible beings in the world, are equal. To destroy life, or to alter it, is impossible, for life is the one thing that exists. All else, but seems to us to be.’
Remember then: there is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!’
