Wisdom of the Ages

Here are some of the verities of life which are eternally true. Let us take one for cogitation each day and try to reflect the truth of it in our life. We have, of course, to guard against making an alloy of it by a subtle admixture, traducing it to suit our own commonplace convenience.

August:

1. Always try to go in for something bigger than yourself.

2. Begin not with a programme, but with a deed.

3. Resolutions are like eels, easy to catch but hard to hang on.

4. Love cures both, him who gives and him who receives.

5. No one can reach heaven by creating a hell on earth.

6. A spark of humour makes all of us kin.

7. In silence, great things fashion themselves.

8. Strength lies in quietness and confidence.

9. Internal balance is health and internal imbalance sickness.

10. Sit easily in the saddle of life; let nothing disturb nor frighten you for everything passes away except God and He alone is sufficient.

11. Rejoice in the Lord and again rejoice in Him.

12. Learn to invest your life in the upbuilding of others.

13. Faith is the healthiest form of thought.

14. He profits most who serves best.

15. The inflamed and distended ego leads to hallucinatory omnipotence.

16. Without suffering, man does not really humanise himself nor liberate his Spiritual Aspirations.

17. Practise whole-hearted giving yourself to God; and God will, with equal whole-heartedness give Himself to you.

18. Pray the hate out and pray God in.

19. So long you do not know what causes a disease, you live in a state of perpetual fear.

20. Life is a Great Gift from God that one may not waste nor allow It to let slip.

21. He who gives quickly, gives ten times.

22. Self-surrender is the only way to self-expression.

23. See deep enough and you see musically.

24. The tragedy of life is individual self-consciousness as it sunders the individual from cosmic consciousness.

25. Great men rejoice at cresses of fortune as brave soldiers do at war.

26. Sufferings rightly understood and wisely born lead to the ending of sufferings.

27. When the poor and the lonely are taken care of then the Mercy and Grace of God descends.

28. The way of a superman is three-fold: be virtuous, be wise, and be bold.

29. All things are possible to him who believes; less difficult to him who hopes, easier to him who loves and still more easy to him who practises and perseveres.

30. Death is but the change in the form of the deathless spirit.

31. Woe to the soul that clings to the body.