"Feed then your people," said the Vital Principle, "with your heart.
- By the influence of your own perfection.
Rest in inaction, and the world will be good of itself. Cast your slough. Spit forth intelligence. Ignore all differences. Become one with the infinite. Release your mind. Free your soul. Be vacuous. Be Nothing!
"Let all things revert to their original constitution. If they do this, without knowledge, the result will be a simple purity which they will never lose; but knowledge will bring with it a divergence therefrom. Seek not the names nor the relations of things, and all things will flourish of themselves."
- "Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know." Emerson.
"Your Holiness," said the Spirit of the Clouds, as he prostrated himself and took leave, "has informed me with power and filled me with mysteries. What I had long sought, I have now found."
The men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
- "The man, and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing 'what nobody does,' or of not doing 'what everbody does,' is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency." Mill's Essay on Liberty, ch. iii.
Those who make friends with their likes and do
