The Superior Man abides in change and awaits his destiny. The inferior
man practices manipulation and prays for luck.
Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves. Swami Satchidananda.
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. To accept the irrevocable is to let go of desire. That which comes should not be avoided, that which is past should not be followed. A person's character is his fate.
We take a great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which of itself will fall into our hands.
You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstances.
For freedom implies, among other things, the right to grow differently
and to grow rapidly or slowly. Man has a right to chose to become
wise, but the inescapable corollary of this is the right to chose the path
of folly , but without hope of escaping the price of folly. Now,
it is not wise to try to save men from the price of folly, for it is a
necessary teacher. However, it is always true Compassion to seek
to arouse in men a desire for Wisdom. Franklin Merrell-Wolff.
A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him. They wish to be saved from the results of their vices, but....... not from their vices.
Whatever I learn from any circumstances, that especially did I need to know. Events come out of God, and our characters determine them and constrain fate, as much as they determine the words and tone of a friend, to us. Hence are they always acceptable as experience, and we do not see how we could have done without them.
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it: And the moral is, that what we seek we shall find; what we flee from, flees from us; as Goethe said, "What we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age," and hence the high caution, that, since we are sure of having what we wish, we beware to ask only for high things.
They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc, are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.
You cannot move a flower without troubling a star; and so it is with every individual and collective action.
It is a tempest of fancies, and the only ballast I know, is a respect for the present hour. Without any shadow of doubt, amidst this vertigo of shows and politics, I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed, that we should not postpone and refer and wish, but do broad justice where we are, by whomsoever we deal with, accepting our actual companions and circumstances, however humble or odious,
It is not an accident that makes a man a slave; no one is a prisoner
by chance; every bodily outrage has its due cause. The man once did what
he now suffers. A man that murders his mother will become a woman and be
murdered by a son; a man that wrongs a woman will become a woman, to be
wronged by a man.
When the life-principle leaves the body it is what it is, what it most intensely lived.
Not your act but your motive is
weighed in the scales of divine justice.
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