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.
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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.
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.
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The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
