On Thoughts and Aphorisms

49—To feel and love the God of beauty and good in the ugly and the evil, and still yearn in utter love to heal it of its ugliness and its evil, this is real virtue and morality.How can one help to cure the evil and...

44—Only those thoughts are true the opposite of which is also true in its own time and application; indisputable dogmas are the most dangerous kind of falsehoods. Why are indisputable dogmas the most dangerous...

39—Sometimes one is led to think that only those things really matter which have never happened; for beside them most historic achievements seem almost pale and ineffective. I would like to have an explanation of this...

35—Men are still in love with grief; when they see one who is too high for grief or joy, they curse him and cry, "O thou insensible!" Therefore Christ still hangs on the cross in Jerusalem. 36—Men are in love with...

         31—What I wished or thought to be the right thing does not come about; therefore it is clear that there is no All-Wise one who guides the world but only blind Chance or a brute Causality. For some people...

28—One called Napoleon a tyrant and imperial cut-throat; but I saw God armed striding through Europe. Are all these wars necessary for the evolution of the earth? 29—I have forgotten what vice is and what virtue; I...

24—When I pine at misfortune and call it evil, or am jealous and disappointed, then I know that there is awake in me again the eternal fool. What is this "misfortune" and why does it come? 25—When I see others suffer,...

13—They told me, "These things are hallucinations." I inquired what was a hallucination and found that it meant a subjective or psychical experience which corresponds to no objective or no physical reality. Then I sat...

16—Do not like so many modern disputants smother thought under polysyllables or charm inquiry to sleep by the spell of formulas and cant words. Search always; find out the reason for things which seem to the hasty...

19—When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent, but I could no longer find them. 20—God had opened my eyes; for I...

12—They proved to me by convincing reasons that God did not exist, and I believed them. Afterwards I saw God, for He came and embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings of others or my own experience?

11 – Immortality is not the survival of the mental personality after death, though that also is true, but the waking possession of the unborn and deathless Self of which body is only an instrument and a shadow.