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Master mystic and philosopher Manly P. Hall dedicated his life to uncovering ancient truths. Explore his legendary books, lectures, and timeless legacy.
…time of life when he might enjoy spending it the most so This problem of retirement begins in school when you start out. Life has to be planned. We have to give proper consideration to the changing needs of our own dispositions and natures. It is not…
…that he might have done so, and it's been part of the original system. It is not recorded by Iambicus in his Life of Pythagoras. Nor is it reported by Plato, although he makes use of Pythagorean numbers. We do, however, find competitively early evidence…
…young again. Whatever time of life he passes through, he has passed this way before and will pass many times in the future. Life is a great cycle of return, of restatement, each, however, on a little different level of insight, each with a little more…
…them and most men hate each other. Open your eyes and life is a magnificent experience. Close it or close your eyes. Life is blindness staggering to the grave. Everything depends on those inner eyes. And you know that they are opening as you perceive…
…that we live in a man-made universe. And if this peculiar delusion actually controls us, suddenly the meaning of life is destroyed. Life has to have sureties, values, facts, truth, that are larger than the contrivances of men. If these larger facts are not…
…the face becomes the symbol of this attitude of consciousness. Some years ago, there was an illustration, I think it was in Life magazine. A photographer had taken a picture of a crowded intersection in New York City. And in this picture, there were at…
…if he had set the leg, the dog had gotten well, perhaps in time the dog would have run away also. This is life. Life lives itself. Therefore, there is no death. There is no problem. But we can dramatize these things and make them terribly important. I…
…operate in him, we know then what Plotinus meant when he said to the young man who came to him, make philosophy thy journey. Life is a journey. And this life journey is most important if it is a journey in philosophy to philosophy. If it is a journey…
…happen when we think we've come to the end. There's always hope. St. Paul lists hope as one of the great hopes for mankind. Life, love, hope. These are the great beliefs for which there can be no substitute. So we can take a word like love and…
…of the earth, fell into water, where a strange decomposition took place. A death. And out of this death and decay, life came. Life as a green scum from the surface of water. This was the ilium, the illus, the mysterious source, of the family of the…
…Brahman. By the Brahman's experience in coming back to waking from its own sleeping, it adds wisdom to something beyond itself. Life goes on. Life is the infinite manifestation of growth. And men thought this way long before they were disillusioned. Perhaps…
…Brahman's experience in coming back to waking from its own sleeping, it adds wisdom to something beyond itself. Life goes on. Life is the infinite manifestation of growth. And men thought this way long before they were disillusioned. Perhaps they were right.…
…a strange but infinite faith. That life begins as a total acceptance. And gradually, step by step, it evolves into a rebellion. Life begins by some kind of a universal consciousness. a consciousness adequate to all needs and it slowly retracts or in one…
…own eternal existence. Here we then have another chain of patterns which belong to part of the concept of eternality itself. Life is an infinite progression of patterns. Life is an infinite unfoldment of infinite potential. No one can say or even imagine…
…another chain of patterns which belong to part of the concept of eternality itself. Life is an infinite progression of patterns. Life is an infinite unfoldment of infinite potential. No one can say or even imagine what the total potential of existence is.…
…produces the compound of inner and outward activity, meaning. And this compound is the secret of the vital perpetuation of life. Life cannot be perpetuated by thought alone, nor by action alone, nor by feeling alone. But when thought or feeling move into…
…and go back into another interesting byway that leads in the same general direction. About 1731, there was issued a book called The Life of Cephas. Incidentally, we have a copy of the rare first English edition of this work in our library for anyone who…
…wishes to consult it. It was published first in about 1731 and came into English about 1760 or 70 or thereabouts. The Life of People was another book looking for an author, which sometimes happens in the world of literature. Many suspects were advanced,…
…Cagliostro, we find the initiation of the four elements taking quite a place. And very shortly after the publication of the Life of Cethos, there was an important Masonic text issued, which also described these initiation rites, and they are found in the…
…which are innumerable wonderful patterns, designs, and figures. Men must read these figures and live or remain ignorant of them and die. Life is just that simple. Either man must solve the riddle of nature, the riddle of the great space that sits forever…
…the concept of Agni. As the symbol of the power of life. Fire became the visible symbol of the quality of life. Life living on matter. Life perpetuating itself by destroying its own not-self. Spirit flaming forth because of the fuel. The fuel which it…
…As the symbol of the power of life. Fire became the visible symbol of the quality of life. Life living on matter. Life perpetuating itself by destroying its own not-self. Spirit flaming forth because of the fuel. The fuel which it is to consume.…
…too heavily upon him, and he finally relinquished most of his influence in journalism in order to continue his practice of law. Life moved on with him in this way until the Civil War, at which time he received the commission of Brigadier General in…
…ourselves only. So wonderful is it, my dear, that this flower is not really stillness or quietness or calmness at all. It is life. Life ever moving, ever dynamic, ever creative. It is just as real, just as dynamic as the life around us which we find so…
…and ending in God. And passing in its middle distances through incredible diversities of development and structure. Everything hastening on. Life a procession going somewhere. Life never for a moment merely a diffusion going nowhere. For in the infinite will…
…in its middle distances through incredible diversities of development and structure. Everything hastening on. Life a procession going somewhere. Life never for a moment merely a diffusion going nowhere. For in the infinite will the entire purpose of life…
…is the law which we call harmony and rhythm. Now, in nature, as Havelock Ellis realized, life is a kind of dance. Life is a magnificent motion. The Chinese Taoist, in his concept of Tao, or universal being, recognized truth, God, reality, the road, all…
…in excess of itself, nor deficient of itself. And no effect, when it becomes a cause, can produce a cause inconsistent with itself. Life goes on, experience goes on, as long as cause and effect go on. Yet there must be, according to Buddhism, a gradual…
…And in the elast, as the Greeks call it, or primordial slime of space, a decomposition took place from which life came. Life in this case, of course, being formed, beginning to develop instruments for the embodiment of the energy fields behind it. Now, in…
…that is his proper obligation in life. Failure to do that and hope for spiritual achievement goes out the window. He must grow. Life is a growth. And no one grows by becoming an alcoholic or an alcoholic addict. No one grows by spending everything on…
…1% improvement. They have more disillusion than when they leave than they were when they came in. Nothing has satisfied them. Life has been miserable. largely because their own personal ambitions were frustrated they tried to be happy but didn't try to make…
…shall discover that life is a joyful growing and that the dirge we have put in there is simply misunderstanding on our own part. Life is not a series of tragedies. Life is a great series of opportunities to be more than we are. And to the degree of…
…joyful growing and that the dirge we have put in there is simply misunderstanding on our own part. Life is not a series of tragedies. Life is a great series of opportunities to be more than we are. And to the degree of being more, we grow. And as we…
…this, we try to think out what man is really concerned with in life. And we find that to the average person, Life is simply a process of continuing to supply oneself and one's families with the necessities of material existence. In other words, it's…
…growth than you brought with you when you came. We must learn something out of living. Unless we learn, there is no living. Life is not simply a veil of circumstances. It is a pattern of projects and purposes. Life is something that we have to use…
…Unless we learn, there is no living. Life is not simply a veil of circumstances. It is a pattern of projects and purposes. Life is something that we have to use to grow. It is the supreme opportunity to outgrow ourselves, to build a new foundation of…
…forms, changing appearances, changing cycles of manifestation, but nothing begins or ends. Space does not begin or end. Time does not. Life does not. There is an infinite manifestation of life. Life going on forever. Life vital today is on creation's primal…
…or ends. Space does not begin or end. Time does not. Life does not. There is an infinite manifestation of life. Life going on forever. Life vital today is on creation's primal morn. Therefore, the individual looking around and trying to explain himself…
…not begin or end. Time does not. Life does not. There is an infinite manifestation of life. Life going on forever. Life vital today is on creation's primal morn. Therefore, the individual looking around and trying to explain himself comes finally to the…
…to waste or abuse. This is the power of sacrament. This in a mysterious way is the mystery of the atoning blood. Life within ourselves is pure. It is conditioned by the mind, by the emotions, by environment, by prejudice and opinion, by bigotry, but…
…the river again returns to the sea this is life There is this endless cycling, nothing lost, nothing added, nothing subtracted. Life fulfilling a great cyclic motion. A motion leading from the infinite back again to the infinite. And that in this motion,…
…gets the full training, his machine will be obsolete. This is the same way all the way along. You're not supposed to do this. Life is not supposed to be an addiction to a profession that will get riches and nothing else. There is no comfort, no beauty,…
…we should estimate ourselves. 15, 20, 50 years after we have made the mistake, we are no longer the same person. Life has changed us. Life has brought us new enlightenments, new opportunities, new relationships. and therefore we are today a new person…
…ourselves. 15, 20, 50 years after we have made the mistake, we are no longer the same person. Life has changed us. Life has brought us new enlightenments, new opportunities, new relationships. and therefore we are today a new person the person that made…
…to be especially frequent in confused social situations, we have to simply take upon ourselves the realization that life is an experience. Life is a series of incidents which we meet and control, or we meet and are defeated by these incidents. We are here…
…being is perfect and very little likelihood that he will become perfect in the present as far as we can see it. Life is an eternal growth. That which no longer grows deteriorates. There is either progress due to internal strength or the structure fails.…
…are not in line with the experiences of life. Taking all in all, a life experience is a strangely checkered thing. Life experience is a series of adjustments. The individual is constantly under some kind of ulterior influence. The world we live in…
…cell in the human body changes. And it is also true that in the course of a lifetime every cell in the human soul changes. Life becomes different. The person who made a mistake in the past is not the same person who is alive now. And there is nothing…
…innocent creatures, but let us not deceive ourselves. Within each innocent creature there are potentials. These potentials have to be developed. Life has to be built and unfolded in a reasonable manner. No two persons in the human kingdom are exactly alike.…
…only thing that is important. And we owe that life everything that we are. And it owes us nothing unless we earn it. Life, therefore, has placed us in the presence of an eternal problem. In order that we may master that problem, that we shall become…
…But whatever be the cause, the picture will never be fully revealed until we put all the parts together correctly. Life is largely concerned, therefore, with the effort to put the parts together. And we observe small children confronted psychologically with…
…where we can start with these people. It's obvious that they can't take up a new career as they would have at 20. Life circumstances no longer permit this. But there is somewhere lurking in this problem some way of centering them again on the one thing…
…requiring a vast concept of theistic forces operating in nature. army table the all-compassionate the perfectly enlightened the Lord of Life and Death the infinite servant of all that lives who has planned in its own consciousness not only the salvation…
…a real good old-fashioned laugh. He has to have a kind of a sour, sarcastic smirk, because we can no longer afford to laugh. Life has burdened us so that real, honest humor has lost its appeal, lost its meaning to us. We can't enjoy. We can only think…
…found wound around the staff of Asclepius, the great Greek deity of medicine. So the serpent became a symbol. Motion was life. Life was protection. Life was continuance. Life was the guarding of things, and among the ruins of our Mayan brethren to the…
…the staff of Asclepius, the great Greek deity of medicine. So the serpent became a symbol. Motion was life. Life was protection. Life was continuance. Life was the guarding of things, and among the ruins of our Mayan brethren to the south, the gods and…
…Asclepius, the great Greek deity of medicine. So the serpent became a symbol. Motion was life. Life was protection. Life was continuance. Life was the guarding of things, and among the ruins of our Mayan brethren to the south, the gods and heroes stand…
…provident, All creatures possessing within them the life of the Creator must have an eternal continuance of themselves or in universal being. Life as we know it must therefore be an episode in a larger existence. For this and other reasons I believe in…
…toy, the divine beauty that we find in the consolation that comes to friendship and affection. These things are part of life. Life is building a better world. Hate is tearing it down. All the various conflicts of existence are betraying the divine son.…
…that are here to make us learn. We are here to realize that this schooling we are going through is an educational process. Life in this world is not a vacation. It is a period of schooling. It is something in which we have lots of opportunities…
…the person survives. And more and more, even the scientific communion is beginning to assume the possibility of life after death. Life after death was accepted by our most primitive ancestors It has always been known intuitively as part of our eternal…
…merely things the uses for which are known. There is nothing new. Because nothing can exist except it be sustained by life. Life sustains nothing useless. And the life in no thing can be considered useless or worthless. It has a purpose. And he evolved…
…without limitation or boundary, is accessible to all things at all times. Thus life per se is available to man at all times. Life can never be separated from man. Man must separate himself from life. Life in itself is not a separable agent. It is a…
…Thus life per se is available to man at all times. Life can never be separated from man. Man must separate himself from life. Life in itself is not a separable agent. It is a complete diffusion. It cannot withdraw any area of itself and leave a vacuum.…
…belief. But in Israel, the law was the whole of the law. The law was the basis of every factor in life. Life moved from a religious conviction. Medicine was practiced according to religion. Legal matters were settled according to religion. the problem of…
…But when certain conditions arise, ceases its benevolence. When law ceases its support, the thing perishes. But law does not perish. Life as living beings, however, as populations of space, must go on. Their bodies, governed by law, return to the law from…
…or full of seed, like the mysterious statue of Serapis in Alexandria, the body of which was covered with growing plants. Life, to these people, meant the emergence of active creative processes. Things become alive when they move, when they bear fruit. When…
…life is involved with continuance. Therefore, absolute life is absolute continuance, which again relates to essence or total immortality. Life, therefore, is manifested as a continuing unfoldment of the divine nature within itself, from itself, and by means of…
…in Alexandria and Proclus both mention. It is a moment, maybe, only a moment, as we find it mentioned in Havelock Ellis' Dance of Life. It is an instant in which the tremendous nature of the internal is made known to us. And every effort to describe it…
…because it is the rule. It is built into the nature of things. It is part of that eternal thing we call life. Life itself is under rule, under law. Life has its supreme rules. And these rules are administered by various organisms which arise out of…
…built into the nature of things. It is part of that eternal thing we call life. Life itself is under rule, under law. Life has its supreme rules. And these rules are administered by various organisms which arise out of this substance of life. Each animal…
…instead of thinking and trying to wonder how it is all worked out in nature, let's realize that nature is a source of life. Life is a moral thing. Life is not just water springing out of the ground. Water is not just dew coming down from heaven. Life…
…to wonder how it is all worked out in nature, let's realize that nature is a source of life. Life is a moral thing. Life is not just water springing out of the ground. Water is not just dew coming down from heaven. Life is a living organism with…
…life. Life is a moral thing. Life is not just water springing out of the ground. Water is not just dew coming down from heaven. Life is a living organism with rules of its own. To live, we must keep the rules. To grow, we must keep the rules. To…
…the various levels and orders of the Kabbalah. In Kabbalism the Great Sephirothic Tree appears in four forms representing the Tree of Life on four levels of existence. These four levels of the Tree of Life are represented by the four suits and the Godhead…
…Tree appears in four forms representing the Tree of Life on four levels of existence. These four levels of the Tree of Life are represented by the four suits and the Godhead is represented by the court cards. The other cards constitute the 10 Sephirothic…
…Brahmin. By the Brahmin's experience in coming back to waking from its own sleeping, it adds wisdom to something beyond itself. Life goes on. life is the infinite manifestation of growth now men thought this way long before they were disillusioned perhaps…
…attempted a valid and careful arraignment of his dates and facts. Part of this material is taken from Major General Furlong's Rivers of Life, and it will show you the certain points which I wish to make. In this particular work, he places the date, 3600…
…consequently concerned not primarily with persons or even events, but with motion. And motion itself is a primary attribute of life. Life moving. Now life in its motion, in everything that lives and moves, is subject to the law of alternation. Everything…
…thus arose at a primitive time a process by means of which The mental nature began to assert itself over the arterial system. Life was conveyed to all parts of the body by the arteries. But this life was a sleeping life, a life which contained all…
…is the love of truth. Now, love is a very capital word. Love to the average individual is a very physical word. Life and love to the theologian is an emotional experience. Life and love to the philosopher is an intellectual experience. But beyond this…
…capital word. Love to the average individual is a very physical word. Life and love to the theologian is an emotional experience. Life and love to the philosopher is an intellectual experience. But beyond this is a simple, direct fact of the love of…
…of man, by means of which this consciousness ultimately regains its universal completeness and is reunited with its divine source. Life is the production of the heavenly known, the production of the universal true principles. which is the elixir of eternal…
…Well, he therefore took a very much older term, Tao, and applied it to this concept of a universal, all-permeating life. Life everywhere and in everything. It could be experienced. The life that cut through all stations and all levels of social advancement…
…of his way of life, out of the parts of his nature, out of all the circumstances which occur to him every day. Life is a series of small victories, over doubts, uncertainties, temptations. Wherever there is a victory, there is another flash of light in…
…to share in. But as body closes in upon our hopes and aspirations, and education dulls them, there is a grave disillusionment. Life is no longer the beautiful necessity we have thought about. It becomes a nagging, fatiguing routine. But this is not what…
…life And this stream of life is the thing we want to consider. Some years ago, General Furlong, in his Rivers of Life, gave us a chart showing the development of races, sub-races, and a great arterial system of life descending through history. Everything…
…He believes that there are principles at work constantly, that life is not simply a drifting along through a mass of physical phenomena. Life is the unfolding of a plan, a purpose, that there is a divine power at the source of life. He has his problems…
…To the theosophist or theologist, as the case may be, the physical phenomena of life is more than merely the unfoldment of bodies. Life is a stream of some kind, as shown by Furlong in his Rivers of Life. Life is an unfolding process going on…
…more than merely the unfoldment of bodies. Life is a stream of some kind, as shown by Furlong in his Rivers of Life. Life is an unfolding process going on constantly. It has passed through one cycle after another. It continues to move cyclically within…
…than merely the unfoldment of bodies. Life is a stream of some kind, as shown by Furlong in his Rivers of Life. Life is an unfolding process going on constantly. It has passed through one cycle after another. It continues to move cyclically within the…
…right from the beginning. And, of course, average persons can't do anything very big and colossal about all this. They're not supposed to. Life is not going to be saved by a few colossal people. It is going to be saved by average persons who are ruled…
…something we shouldn't waste, that life is not fulfilled by simply going to school, raising a family, having a job and dying. Life is a series of adventures, of experiences, and every moment of life should be lived, not thrown away. Among older people…
…the truths for which they are the images or emblems. And this can only be done by life. and life is a heart power. Life must be breathed into these things or they are inert. No one would really dare to assume that a city of skyscrapers is actually…
…years and two months, we'll be able to put in the swimming pool. Now that's all work for this. The whole problem is intellectualized. Life is gone out of that problem. The real problem is not how long it will take us to have things. The real problem…
…entirely in the maturity of things. So the real matter is that always and forever Father and Son are united in something else. Life. In a mysterious way, Father and Son are one being. But in that one being are all fathers and all sons. So that…
…Emotions say, I'm taking life, I'm going to make life do what I want it to. I shall use life to fulfill desire. Life takes over this emotional pattern and punishes it because the pattern is wrong. The pattern cannot sustain itself. Life will never do…
…fulfill desire. Life takes over this emotional pattern and punishes it because the pattern is wrong. The pattern cannot sustain itself. Life will never do what this pattern requires. Therefore the person is miserable. The body says, I will do as I please.…
…But I still demand the right to be healthy. Nature with its energy and its life cannot be touched by these demands. Life fulfills its purpose. Body is broken if it opposes life. So everywhere The error is the individual breaking faith with life, law,…
…and shoves with everything he has, he will develop only a badly pressured, badly trained voice. Same thing in life. The purpose of Life, the economy of life, is to use a minimum amount of energy to obtain a maximum result. We only have a certain amount…
…the ancient allegories. So mysticism seeks gradually the benevolent experience within itself, and as Hadlock Ellis reports in his Dance of Life, a very unusual report because it is not often that a that an intellectualist is a mystic it is a comparatively…
…or the world that teaches us, both are gurus, and both are to be regarded, respected, and revered. So we have life as our teacher. Life which we learn as well. not to be fooled by it, not to be deceived by it, but to recognize it for what it is.…
…arts and sciences of the world feels in helpless tears beside the crib of his own dying child, unable to do anything right. Life, therefore, has to have another answer to all this. It has to have the tremendous answer of the immediacy of the availability…
…by the ancients that all visible things flowed from invisible sources. All nature was supported upon invisible foundations. Life itself, though infinitely manifest in its diversity, is concealed and unknowable in its origin. Metaphysics, therefore, covers the…
…substance or nature, with which it is also so identical. For an infinite consciousness is therefore one with infinite life, Life consciousness being terms or the aspects of one thing. Consciousness in itself is life. Consciousness in its manifestation is…
…this carries us naturally to the next point. What is energy? To the classical thinker, energy is simply a conditioned kind of life. Life within itself is like a great ocean. Life in itself has its currents and its tides and its peaks. But in its own…
…What is energy? To the classical thinker, energy is simply a conditioned kind of life. Life within itself is like a great ocean. Life in itself has its currents and its tides and its peaks. But in its own nature, it is in eternal suspension. But when…
…is audacity. Only permissible while man knows no better. But which mind judges life and comes in with an unhappy verdict? Life judges life and comes in with a verdict of divine love and understanding. Life judging itself knows itself. Knows therefore its…
…and comes in with an unhappy verdict? Life judges life and comes in with a verdict of divine love and understanding. Life judging itself knows itself. Knows therefore its risings up and its settings down. knows its increasing and its decreasing, and the…
…an in-breathing of life, and life passing into sleep retired into itself, finding its own root and uniting with it. Life awakening came forth out of itself into objectivity. thus an ancient concept, namely that waking is objective existence, sleeping…
…is not part of any of the academic elements of the personality. Love is part of the principle which produces life. Life in itself is a manifestation of love. And love, therefore, is that which perpetuates, which binds together, which ennobles and deifies…
…Among the saints of Christendom, there's a beautiful description of an experience of this kind by Havelock Ellis and his Dance of Life, an experience that occurred to him. But to the men of the desert, it would be different. Because they came from a…
Life is full of mysterious circumstances, and back in the Stone Age, one of these mysteries came into manifestation for which we have never found an adequate interpretation. The people of the early Stone Age began to develop a certain ability rather…
…life these have had very little actual influence one answer of course is that man has become increasingly involved in hazards. Life has become continuously more complicated. And in the complication of things, law and order seem to disappear. We live still…
…time on, he always talked to the plants. And they did what he wanted them to also. Because you've got to understand life. Life is not you and nothing, or you and something that doesn't mean anything. And all the flowers and birds and animals and…
…Everything outpours with divine grace, with infinite mercy. Even Havelock Ellison, describing his mystical experience in The Dance of Life, comes very much to the same conclusion. Suddenly, nothing is important. that used to be important. Suddenly there can…
…the various levels and orders of the Kabbalah. In Kabbalism, the Great Sephirothic Tree appears in four forms, representing the Tree of Life on four levels of existence. These four levels of the Tree of Life are represented by the four suits, And the…
…Tree appears in four forms, representing the Tree of Life on four levels of existence. These four levels of the Tree of Life are represented by the four suits, And the Godhead is represented by the court cards. The other cards constitute the ten…
…transubstantiation of the host. We have a very definite part in the mystery of the Pentecost. We have a mystery in which Life, a mysterious intangible thing utterly beyond definition, makes all definable things possible. Of this life we may or may not ever…
…archetypal pattern of universal law, matter suddenly is brought into magnificent geometric arrangements. Matter is itself a form, but formless. Life is unformed, but potential of form within itself. And just as matter and energy unite in the production of the…
…actually concerned not primarily with persons or even events, but with motion. And motion itself is a primary attribute of life. Life moving. Now life in its motion, in everything that lives and moves, is subject to the law of alternation. Everything that…
…and taketh others that are new. Never the spirit was born. The spirit shall cease to be never. Birth and death they are dreams. Life is forever. This is the song of the Bhagavad Gita. And we have to recognize in moments of emergency that it is the…
…getting everybody a square inch of land or getting into a certain political group or advancing a social ideology. This is not it. Life is a thing for survival of itself in the most comfortable and pleasant and humane way possible. Until we get over these…
…Therefore, out of the memory bank, we get symbols from the past that help us to integrate the present and build for the future. Life is one unbroken sequence. and when we begin to break it so completely into past present and future we lose the value of…
…infinite continuous manifestation. They represent this concept by a radiant figure. A figure that represents an evolvement of consciousness. Life in the process of growth is constantly producing superior types of things. Down through the ages it has resulted…
…constantly producing superior types of things. Down through the ages it has resulted in the great descent of evolutionary procedures. Life is forever excelling itself, unless in the story of the chambered Nautilus, man, nature, the space around him, the…
…way because he was gradually diffusing himself throughout life. He was no longer working for himself. He was not even working for life. Life was working through him to the fulfillment of its own purposes. and finally in the great day be with us, it is…
…we separate ourselves from all other individuals As long as this separateness continues, is our divine nature able to manifest itself? Life is universal. Form is particular. That we should live in a body makes us a separate being. If we transcend that…
…centers very strongly upon us. But as most of the mystics have pointed out, even as late as Havelock Ellis in his Dance of Life, the search for the inner self is timeless. We think of the fact that we must spend so many years learning to play the…
…also generally realize that the atomic bomb, while it changes the pattern of our society, does not essentially change its hazards. Life becomes a little more dangerous. But this danger has always existed in some degree, to some measure. The life of the…
…whole concept of growth has gotten lost. In its place has come the idea that life is an adventure in the fulfillment of ambitions. Life is a kind of race in which the important thing is to reach the end as quickly as possible. We don't realize it, but…
…as a heritage to your children so that they will live without reason, then life becomes a small pattern of profit and loss. Life becomes a very insignificant thing. And the life of the individual is not more meaningful than the life of a blade of grass…
…the football score. These things we take for granted. So that actually, life to us, subconsciously, is not viewed as we consciously view it. Life to us is a perishable commodity. We know this. And we adapt to it in any way that we can. But the bomb is…
…these planets in turn, by this slow motion, began to unfold their own internal potential, these planets began to bear life. Life in turn began to grow and unfold its own potential. And finally, every form of life, conceivable and inconceivable, manifested…
…said before, that Atlantis represented a period, an epoch, in the development of world cultures. General Furlong, in his Rivers of Life, attempts to show the rise of the great cultures of mankind, particularly as these refer to the seven principal streams…
…Growth is inevitable. For all good things, all revelation, are based upon the immediate and inevitable and eternal presence of life. Life is therefore a very sacred thing. And as we watch its descent through all the orders of creation, we find that…
…and native desire to go forth and learn we are all learners we are all seekers life is a questing after values Life is a release into manifestation of potential strength and power. Life is man gradually gaining victory over ignorance and death and…
…learners we are all seekers life is a questing after values Life is a release into manifestation of potential strength and power. Life is man gradually gaining victory over ignorance and death and darkness. Life is a kind of game, a sublime divine game.…
…Life is a release into manifestation of potential strength and power. Life is man gradually gaining victory over ignorance and death and darkness. Life is a kind of game, a sublime divine game. And in this spirit, ancient man faced it. He faced it as he…
…It was moving on a different member of this septenary body. I was mentioning this but long ago when someone pointed out that Life magazine says there are not seven religions, there are only five. And they gave five. What about the other two? Well, that's…
…a theological thing. Spirit was actually a condition. an endless, eternal fullness of all things. Spirit was life, total life. Life capable of producing an infinite diversity of life, but of itself, one. Space was an absolute nutrition. Space nourished…
…pressure civilization, we have come gradually to neglect those things which could not immediately be fitted into the survival pattern. Life has become very largely a matter of devoting our energies to those things which we regard as necessary to success,…
…from the exclusiveness of a religious position to its increasing inclusiveness, as exemplified by the recent series of articles in Life magazine, and many other articles being published constantly, pointing to the possibility of the faiths of men becoming a…
…we regard as their patrons. Actually, however, painting, music, literature, architecture, all these are trees growing from one root. Life, in all of its manifestations, is one life. diversified through expression and through creation, but never actually divided.…
…the result of a compound. And as Lord Bacon asked to have inspired upon his dream, let all compounds be dissolved. Life and death are polarities of each other. And their relations to each other are eternally impermanent. Therefore, spirit and matter meet…