" GROWTH "" GROWTH "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, (or degeneration) is not an act..... but a habit. Aristotle.
The true consciousness to be developed is, that you do the right thing not because it is your duty to do it, not because it is worthy to do it and it is expected of you to do it, but because your nature impels you to do it. The flower blooms spontaneously without any sense of duty. It possesses no sense of duty because its nature is to do so, to be beautiful. Human beings should also be like that, spontaneous and natural in their action and behaviour. When you do a good thing, you should not feel that you are doing something exceptional, or special, or out of the ordinary.
To do a good thing because if is your nature to do so, is far superior than because it is your duty to do it. As blooms a flower in an unvisited place.
Your spiritual growth will be in direct proportion to the amount of effort you put into it. Value and effort are as much coincident as weight and a tendency to fall. In a very wide but true sense, effort is the deed itself. Effort is the prerogative of virtue. The character of any action (effort), is in its intent.
"Abstinence from low pleasures is the only means of meriting or of obtaining the higher."
The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever to greater sacrifices, to leave their signal talents, their best means and skill of procuring a present success, their power and their fame, -- to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications. Emerson.
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colours our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we new before.Thoreau.
He is the true artist whose life is his material; every stroke of the chisel must enter his own flesh and bone and not grate dully on marble.Thoreau.
Honest sincere effort, and time, and the shell will crack!!
He who receives an injury is an accomplice of the wrongdoer.Thoreau.
Everyone else's welfare is my concern, even mine enemies.
Greatness is in the ascent! Nothing stands in the way to success, but to failure. There is victory in every effort. In the least swing of the arm, in indignant thought, in stern content, we conquer our foe.
The whole of the day should not be daytime, nor of the night nighttime, but some portion be rescued from time to oversee time in. All our hours must not be current; all our time must not lapse. There must be one hour at least which the day did not bring forth,....of ancient parentage and long established nobility,.... whch will be a serene and lofty platform overlooking the rest. We should make our notch every day on our characters, as Robinson Crusoe on his stick. We must be at the helm at least once every day; we must feel the tiller-rope in our hands, and know that if we sail, we steer.Thoreau.
If you find a path with no obstacles--it is probably a path that doesn't lead anywhere.
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination
where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not.
It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life,
and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening.
The finding of God is a coming to one's self.
Prayer that craves a particular commodity, -- any thing less than all good, -- is vicious, and prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
I find my life growing slovenly when it does not exercise a constant supervision over itself. Its failures accumulate. Next to having lived a day well, is a clear and calm overlooking of all our days.Thoreau.
Don't think you are necessarily on the right road because it is a well-beaten path.
My life will wait for nobody, but is being matured still,....irresistibly....while I go about the streets and bargain with this man and that to secure it a living. It will cut its own channel, like the mountain stream, which by the longest ridges and by level prairies, is not kept finally from the sea. So flows a man's life, and will reach the sea water, if not by an earthy channel, yet in dew and rain, overleaping all barriers, with rainbows to announce its victory. It can wind as cunningly and as unerringly as water that seeks its own level; and shall I complain if the gods make it meander? Our least deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there, to eternity. It is not a short and easy southern way, but we must go over snowcapped mountains to reach the sun.Thoreau.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, Do wonders through it, But one cannot communicate and teach it.
Humility , unostentatiousness, non-injuring, forgiveness, simplicity, purity, steadfastness, Self-control; this is declared to be wisdom; What is opposed to this is ignorance. ~ Bhagavad Gita
We must sail by a sort of dead reckoning on this course of life, not
speak any vessel nor spy any headland, but in spite of all phenomena, come
steadily to port at last. In general we must have a catholic and
universal wisdom, (intuition?) wiser than any particular, and be prudent
enough to defer to it always. We are literally wiser than we know.
Men do not fail for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give
wisdom the preference. These low weathercocks on barns and fences
show not the way the general and steady current of the wind sets,....which
brings fair weather and foul,....but the vane on the steeple, high up in
another stratum of atmosphere, tells that. What we need to know in
any case is very simple. I shall not mistake the direction of my
life; if I but know the high land and the main,....on this side the
Appalachians, on that the Pacific,....I shall know how to run. If
a ridge intervene, I have but to seek, or make, a gap to the sea.Thoreau.
One does not soon learn the trade of life. That one may work out
a true life requires more art and delicate skill than any other work.
There is need of the nice fingers of the girl as well as the tough hand
of the farmer. The daily work is too often toughening the pericarp
of the heart as well as the hand. Great familiarity with the world
must be carefully managed. Experience bereaves us of our innocence;
wisdom bereaves us of our ignorance. Let us walk in the world without
learning its ways.Thoreau.
A man's life should be as fresh as a river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant. Some men have no inclination; they have no rapids, no cascades, but marshes, and alligators, and miasma instead.Thoreau.
Sometimes, when I compare myself to other men, methinks I am favoured by the gods. They seem to whisper joy to me beyond my deserts, and that I do have a solid warrant and surety at their hands, which my fellows do not. I do not flatter myself, but if were possible, they flatter me. I am especially guided and guarded.Thoreau.
As difficult to 
preserve is the tenderness of your nature as the bloom
upon a peach. Most men are so taken up with the cares and rude
practice of life, that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
I see young men my equals, who have inherited from their spiritual father
a soul,....broad, fertile, uncultivated,....from their earthly father a
farm,....with cattle and barns and farming tools, the implements of the
picklock and the counterfeiter. Better if they had been born in the
open pasture and suckled by a wolf, or perhaps cradled in a manger, that
they might have seen with a clear eye what was the field they were called
to labour in. The young man has got to live a man's life, then, in
this world, pushing all these things before him, and get on as well as
he can. How many a poor immortal soul have I met, well nigh crushed
and smothered, creeping slowly down the road of life, pushing before it
a barn seventy-five by forty feet and one hundred acres of land,....tillage,
pasture, woodlot! This dull, opaque garment of flesh is load enough
for the strongest spirit, but with such an earthly garment superadded,
the spiritual life is soon plowed into the soil for compost. It is
a fool's life, as they will all find when they get to the end of it.
The man that goes on accumulating property when the bare necessities of
life are cared for, is a fool, and knows better.Thoreau.
"As a general rule, 'Providence'(God) seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement, which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers."
Methinks my present experience is nothing; My past experience
is all in all. 
I think that no experience that I have had to-day
comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.
And not only this is true, but so far back as I can remember I have unconsciously
referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence
:"For life is a forgetting etc." Formerly, methought, nature
developed as I developed, and grew up with me. My life was ecstasy.
In youth, before I had lost my senses, I can remember that I was still
alive, and inhabited my body with inexpressible satisfaction; Both
its weariness and refreshment were sweet to me. This earth was the
most glorious musical instrument, and I was audience to its strains.
I can remember how I was astonished. I said to myself,.... I said
to others,...."There comes into my mind such an indescribable, infinite
all-absorbing, divine, heavenly pleasure, a sense of elevation and expansion,
and I have nought to do with it. I perceive that I am dealt with
by superior powers. This is a pleasure, a joy, an existence that I have
not procured myself. I speak as a witness on the stand, and tell
what I have perceived." The morning and evening
were sweet to me, and I led a life aloof from society of men. I wondered
if a mortal had ever known what I knew. I looked in books for some recognition
of a kindred experience, but, strange to say, I found none. Indeed
I was slow to discover that other men had had this experience, for it had
been possible to read books and to associate men on other grounds.
The maker of me was improving me. When I detected this interference I was
profoundly moved. For years I marched as to a music in comparison with
which the military music of the streets is noise and discord. I was daily
intoxicated, and yet no man could call me intemperate.Thoreau.
With all your science can you tell how it is, that light comes into the soul ?
It is a record of the mellow and ripe moments that I would keep. I would not preserve the husk of life, but the kernel.Thoreau.
Trees have commonly two growths in the year, a spring and a fall growth,
the latter sometimes equaling the former, and you can see where the first
was checked whether by cold or drought, and wonder what there was in the
summer to produce this check, this blight. So is it with man;
most have a spring growth only, and never get over this first check to
their youthful hopes; but plants of hardier constitution, or perchance
planted in more genial soil, speedily recover themselves, and, though they
bear the scar or knot in remembrance of the disappointment, they push forward
again and have a vigorous fall growth which is equivalent to a new
spring.Thoreau.
A man who, as a physical being, is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. Soren Kierkegaard.
It occurred to me when I awoke this morning,
feeling regret for the
intemperance of the day before in eating fruit, which had dulled my sensibilities,
that man was to be treated as a musical instrument, and if any viol was
to be made of sound timber and kept well tuned always, it was he, so that
when the bow of events is drawn across him he may vibrate and resound in
perfect harmony. A sensitive soul will be continually trying its
strings to see if they are in tune. A man's body must be filed down
exactly to a shaving. It is of far more importance than the wood
of a Cremona violin.Thoreau.
When, after feeling dissatisfied with my life, I aspire to something better, am more scrupulous, more reserved and continent, as if expecting somewhat, suddenly I find myself full of life as a nut of meat,....am overflowing with a quiet, genial mirthfulness. I think to myself, I must attend to my diet; I must get up earlier and take a morning walk; I must have done with luxuries and devote myself to my muse. So I dam up my stream, and my waters gather to a head. I am freighted with thought.Thoreau.
October answers to that period in the life of a man when he is no longer dependent on his transient moods, when all his experiences ripen into wisdom, but every root, branch, leaf of him glows with maturity. What he has been and done in his spring and summer appears. He bears his fruit.Thoreau.
Obey 
the law which reveals, and not the law revealed. The man
for whom law exists,....the man of forms,....the conservative,....is a
tame man.
How various are the talents of men! From the brook in which one lover of nature has never, during all his lifetime detected anything larger than a minnow, another extracts a trout that weighs three pounds, or an otter four feet long. How much more game he will see who carries a gun. i.e. who goes to see it! Though you roam the woods all your days, you will never see by chance what he sees, who goes on purpose to see it.Thoreau.
Look and you will find it......what is unsought will go undetected. Sophocles.
How vain to try to teach youth, or anybody, truths! They can only learn them after their own fashion, and when they get ready. A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know. If there is something that does not concern me, which is out of my line, which by experience or by genius my attention is not drawn to, however novel and remarkable it may be, if it is spoken, we hear it not, if it is written, we read it not, or if we read, it does not detain us. Every man thus tracks himself through life, in all his hearing and reading and observation and traveling. His observations make a chain. The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest which he has observed, he does not observe. By and by we may be ready to receive what we cannot receive now.
Down in their hearts wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. If you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, the meaning of life.
How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we can possibly avoid it.Thoreau.
The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night. All memorable events, I should say, transpire in the morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning. Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again , and forever again."Thoreau.
One should develop a nausea for possessions. The wayfarer cannot advance without leaving things behind, realizing that the less he carries, the more easily he can advance.
I did not read books the first summer; I hoed beans. Nay,
I often did better than this. There were times
when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment
to any work, whether of the head or the hands. I love a broad margin
to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed
bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery,
amidst the pines, and the hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude
and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through
the house, until the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of
some travelers wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse
of time. I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they
were far better than any work of the hands would have been. They
were not time subtracted from my life, but so much over and above my usual
allowance. I realized what the Orientals mean by contemplation and
the forsaking of works. I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.Thoreau.
Perfection is in the effort, not the result.
A man ought to compare advantageously with a river, an oak, or a mountain. He shall have not less the flow, the expansion, and the resistance of these.
I know not whether there be, as is alleged, in the upper region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current, which carries with it all atoms which rise to that height, but I see, that when souls reach a certain clearness of perception, they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness.
Success goes thus invariably with a certain 'plus' or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight. And, though a man cannot return into his mother's womb, and be born with new amounts of vivacity, yet there are two economies, which are the best 'substitute' which the case admits. The first is, the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity, and concentrating our force on one or a few points; as the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs.
That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps. He only is rightly immortal, to whom all things are immortal.
I have read somewhere, that none is accomplished, so long as any are
incomplete; that the happiness of one cannot consist with the misery of
any other.
"Napoleon," says Goethe, "visited those sick of the plague, in order to prove that the man who could vanquish fear, could vanquish the plague also; and he was right. 'Tis incredible what force the will has in such cases: it penetrates the body, and puts it in a state of activity, which repels all hurtful influences; whilst fear invites them."
The least habit of dominion over the palate, has certain good effects,
not easily estimated.
Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he who would be a great soul in future, must be a great soul now.
But the soul can be appeased not by a deed, but by a tendency.
You cannot bathe twice in the same river, said Heraclitus; and I add, a man never sees the same object twice: with his own enlargement the object acquires new aspects
"Spiritual growth, which they considered at variance with intellectual culture, is now wedded to it, and man's whole nature is advanced. The intellectual had so lorded it over the moral, that much one-sided cultivation was requisite to make things even. I remember when your intellect was all in all, and the growth of the moral sense came after. It has now taken its proper place in your mind, and the intellect appears for a time prostrate, but in due season both will go on harmoniously, and you will be a perfect man.
The beginning of philosophy is to know the condition of one's own mind. If a man recognizes that this is in a weakly state, he will not then want to apply it to questions of the greatest moment. As it is, men who are not fit to swallow even a morsel, buy whole treatises and try to devour them. Accordingly they either vomit them up again, or suffer from indigestion, whence come gripings, fluxions, and fevers. Whereas they should have stopped to consider their capacity.
First study to conceal what thou art; seek wisdom a little while unto thyself. Thus grows the fruit; first, the seed must be buried in the earth for a little space; there it must be hid and slowly grow, that it may reach maturity. But if it produce the ear before the jointed stalk, it is imperfect--a thing from the garden of Adonis. Such a sorry growth art thou; thou hast blossomed too soon: the winter cold will wither thee away!
First of all, condemn the life thou art now leading: but when thou hast
condemned it, do not despair of thyself--be not like them of mean spirit,
who once they have yielded, abandon themselves entirely and as it were
allow the torrent to sweep them away. No; learn what the wrestling masters
do. Has the boy fallen? "Rise," they say, "wrestle again, till thy strength
come to thee." Even thus should it be with thee. For know that there is
nothing more tractable than the human soul. It needs but to will, and the
thing is done; the soul is set upon the right path: as on the contrary
it needs but to nod over the task, and all is
lost. For ruin and recovery alike are from within.
As one discovers the nature of the soul, and experiences and begins to understand the principles of harmony, it seems inevitable that such insight will leave a mark on one's personal conduct and dealings with people.
Rather than love, than money, than prestige, give me Truth or give me death: Nice words; The problem with the Truth is, that it hurts, not only does it hurt, it hurts like hell. Why is that? The Truth reveals: It uncovers our ignorance about our self to our Self. The Truth shall make me free!
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than we have ever known it, and flood our parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats.Thoreau.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
There are vents for the current of inward life which increases as it is spent.
The best discovery the discoverer makes for himself.
The husbandman deals with land; physicians and trainers with the body; the wise man with his own Mind. No labour, according to Diogenes, is good but that which aims at producing courage and strength of soul rather than of body.
Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed, through which the creator passes. The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good.
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider only, the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat he would starve.
To have left undone what thou shouldst have done: to have lost the faithfulness,
the reverence, the modesty that is in thee! Greater loss than this seek
not to find!
"All great things are slow of growth; this is true even of a grape or of a apple. If then you say to me now, I desire a apple, I shall answer, It needs time: wait till it first flower, then cast its blossom, then ripen. Whereas then the fruit of the apple-tree reaches not maturity suddenly nor yet in a single hour, do you nevertheless desire so quickly, and easily to reap the fruit of your efforts? No, expect it not, even though I bid you!" It is with men as it is with trees; you must grow slowly to last long.
Turtles can tell more about the roads than hares!
The true test of intelligence, is the ability to genuinely consider something without necessarily accepting it. If a man would pursue the Truth his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows.
"He builds too low who builds beneath the skies."
If thou wouldst make progress, be content to seem foolish and void of understanding with respect to outward things. Care not to be thought to know anything. If any should make account of thee, distrust thyself.
Never call yourself a Philosopher nor talk much among the unlearned about Principles, but do that which follows from them. Thus at a banquet, do not discuss how people ought to eat; but eat as you ought. Remember that Socrates thus entirely avoided ostentation. Men would come to him desiring to be recommended to philosophers, and he would conduct them thither himself--so well did he bear being overlooked. Accordingly if any talk concerning principles should arise among the unlearned, be you for the most part silent. For you run great risk of spewing up what you have ill digested. And when a man tells you that you know nothing and you are not nettled at it, you can be sure that you have begun the work.
For it is to God, not to the Good, that our likeness must look: to model ourselves upon good men is to produce an image of an image: we have to fix our gaze above the image and attain likeness to the Supreme Exemplar.
Emulate don't imitate.
The travelers step quickeneth at eventide.
Absolutely unmixed attention, is prayer.
God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you
ready. Don't imagine that God can be
compared to an earthly carpenter, who acts or doesn't act, as he wishes;
who can will to do something or
leave it undone, according to his pleasure. It is not that way
with God: where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow
into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow
into it and cannot refrain from doing so. Eckhart.
The further you enter into the Truth, the deeper it is. Don't search for the Truth with your intellect, the Truth is learned without learning.
Eventually, one realizes that light is not that which is seen, but that which sees. Truth, when expressed in speech, appears paradoxical.
But you must be steady, you must seek with earnestness. Dive deep. Unless you plunge, you won't find any jewels on the sea-bed. You can't get them if you simply float on the surface.
Adopt adequate means for the end you seek to attain, but don't become attached to the means, or worse, mistake the means for the end.
And He led me into the water and I got my feet wet; and the water was up to my ankles. And He led me in a little farther, and the water was up to my knees. And He led me in a little farther, and the water was up to my waist; Beyond that, there was water to swim in.
If you wish to drown, do not play in shallow water.
You cannot speak to a well-frog, about the ocean, and you cannot speak
about ice, to a summer insect.
A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm.
Despise that which should be despised, but never hate.
There are three words that I took out of my vocabulary some years ago: Have, as in have to; need, as in need to; and got, as in got to. I do things when I excercise one of my greatest powers....the power of choice....because I choose to do them.
Rest is good! It is the law of nature, and the laws of nature are the laws of God.
Skepticism is like fire, too much and you perish from the heat, too little and you perish from the cold. With the right amount you can keep pleasantly warm. It does not pay to be either dogmatic, indifferent or naive. Keep an open mind and consider. If something works for you, use it, when a new insight comes along, accept it! It is not a crime to change your mind about something; it is the only way to grow.
No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his eyes the subject. Our eyes are such that we can not see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened: then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
A man's growth is seen in the succession of his friends. For every friend that he loses for the sake of truth, he gains a better.
One class of people live to the utility of the symbol; esteeming health and wealth the final good. Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet, and the artist, and the naturalist, and the man of science. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified; these are wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.
Our life is an apprenticeship to this truth, that around every circle another
can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that
there is always another dawn rising at mid-noon, and under every deep a lower
deep opens.
How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their
limitations.
Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm!!
The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth. We know the truth when we see it, let the
skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what
they do not wish to hear, "How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own?' We
know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
"It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to
discern what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of
intelligence."
The things that are really for you, gravitate to you. Believe as you now live, that every sound that is spoken over the round world, which you are ready to hear, will come to your ear! Every proverb, every book, every byword that belongs to you for aid or comfort, shall surely come home through open or winding passages.
In certain men, digestion and sex absorb their vital force, and the stronger these are, the weaker the individual. The more of these drones perish, the better for the hive.
It is very certain that it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and a need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
Can we not leave, to such as love it, the virtue that glitters for the commendation of society, and ourselves pierce the deep solitudes of absolute ability and worth.
Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know. Truer than this knowledge is 'knowledge through
identity'. There is a life that is not to be described or known, other than by possession.
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.--Saint Augustine
We attract what we dwell on, and what we dwell on we become.
The first thing to say respecting what are called 'new views' is, that they are not new, but the very oldest of thoughts cast into the mould of new times. Light is always identical in its composition, but it falls on a great variety of objects, and by so falling is first revealed to us, not in its own form, for it is formless, but in theirs; in like manner, thought only appears in the objects it classifies.
You will never advance if you do not endeavour to live up to the highest that is within your reach.
You've got to work like you don't need the money. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to give without being obliged, and, with no obligation. It's got to come from your heart....... or it means nothing at all.
All spiritual growth takes place as a gradual harmonious unfolding. It happens automatically. As you live up to your highest light, acting on your inspirations, more and more light comes to you. There is no hurry or impatience to get anything; it comes as you are ready. ~ Cheryl Canfield
Look and you will find it......what is unsought will go undetected. Sophocles
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
"Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable, cannot be organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path."
I know the path: it is straight and narrow.
It is like the edge of a sword. I rejoice to
walk on it. I weep when I slip. God's word is:
"He who strives never perishes."
I have implicit faith in that promise. Though,
therefore, from my weakness I fail a thousand times,
I shall not lose faith. Ghandi.
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