Choosing Truth

Choosing Truth

Awake to the knowledge that God is, God is.

Begin with the children and teach them honesty before you teach them geography—honesty with the parents, honesty with each other and honesty with themselves.

Be led from the unreal to the real

Be led from darkness to light,

Be led from death to immortality.

—Upanishad

Be vigilant, accept everything as a child does, but examine and test everything as a man does, without prejudice and without partiality.

Each day rise to the plane of the spirit, above the physical world, beyond the desires of the astral world, beyond the lower stratum of mind, up and up to the Source of all life and all wisdom.

The gates will swing wide to him who gives the right knock.

Get acquainted with your own soul. Know why you do this or that, why you feel this or that. Sit quietly when in doubt about any matter and let the truth rise from the deeps of yourself.

The object of life is to evoke and develop the God within.

A good servant maketh a good master and he that is greatest among you, let him be the servant of all.

Here is the solution to all social problems—

Love to God and man.

Not yet do you grasp the full mastery of will. It can make of you anything you choose, within the limit of your unit energy, for everything is either active or potential in the unit of force which is man.

When the light becomes strong, the darkness vanishes.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

—Leo Tolstoy

Cling to the idea of immortal life.

We are all immortal, without end or beginning.

We draw to ourselves the experiences which we are ready for, and which we demand, and most souls do not demand enough here, any more than they did in life. Tell them to demand more and the demand will be answered.

Speak always words of love, truth and kindness.

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