Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.
Really there are only two feelings a human can have, namely love and fear.
- Topic: Fear, Love
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.
To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
