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icon:: 📖 purchased:: start:: end:: published:: length:: author:: cover:: reading-time:: score:: - Progressive Summarizations - Beware of dead weight, my companions id:: 62f18c72-34b3-415e-a0bc-f4d5bd00e1b3 collapsed:: true - All is a dead weight to the man who has a firm faith in his godhood. - He holds in himself the world, yet carries not its weight. - I say to you, except you jettison your silver and your gold they’ll drag you with them to the bottom. - For Man is held by everything he holds. id:: 631b992a-a7ec-45b6-8df9-c00b2d25400c - Release your grip on things if you would not be in their grip. - Set not on anything a price, for the slightest thing is priceless. collapsed:: true - You price a loaf of bread. Why not price the Sun, the Air, the Earth, the Sea and the sweat and ingenuity of Man without which there could have been no loaf? - Set not on anything a price lest you be setting prices on your lives. - No dearer is Man’s life than that which he holds dear. - Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold. - Sit in this nest and send Imagination forth collapsed:: true - Follow your guide with stout and fearless hearts. - His footprints, be they in the farthest star, shall be to you as signs and sureties that you have already been planted there. - For you cannot imagine aught save it be in you or a part of you. - Set no limits to yourselves. Spread out until there are no regions where you are not. - Spread out till you meet God where’er you meet yourselves. Spread out. Spread out! - Seek not to cover anything at all. If naught reveal your secrets, their very cover will collapsed:: true - Do nothing in the dark in the belief that darkness is a cover impenetrable. - There is no darkness, my companions. There are degrees of light so graduated as to meet the need of every creature in the world. - Your broad day is twilight to the phoenix. Your deep night is broad day to the frog. - If darkness itself be uncovered, how can it be for anything a cover? - Seek not to cover anything at all. If naught reveal your secrets, their very cover will. - I say to you, no breath escapes your breasts except it broadcast on wind the innermost of your breasts. - No glance is shot from any eye except it carry with it all the eye, its lusts and fears, its smiles and tears. - No dream has ever entered any door except it knocked at every other door. - Take care, then, how you look. Take care what dreams you let in the door and what you let go by. - Live as if your God Himself had need of you His life to live collapsed:: true - This is the way to freedom from care and pain: So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is. So speak as if the world entire were but a single ear intent on hearing what you say. And so, in truth, it is. So do as if your every deed were to recoil upon your heads. And so, in truth, it does. So wish as if you were the wish. And so, in truth, you are. So live as if your God Himself had need of you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does. - On Creative Silence - As to offending me, whoever knows the peace invincible of Silence, the same can never be offended, nor offend. id:: 66fc024a-fb72-443e-b98d-7fe5b9205a1d - Refrain from speaking much. Out of a thousand words uttered there may be one, and one only, that need in truth be uttered. The rest but cloud the mind, and stuff the ear, and irk the tongue, and blind the heart as well. - On Judgement collapsed:: true - I am not come to judge the world, but rather to unjudge it. - For Ignorance alone likes to be decked in wig and robe and to propound the law and mete out penalties. - The Law - God’s oneness is God’s everlasting law. It is a self-enforcing law. - Mankind is but a single Man Is not the Sea – though vast and deep – a single drop? Is not the Earth – though flung so far – a single sphere? Are not the spheres – though numberless – a single universe? Likewise is mankind but a single Man. Likewise is Man, with all his worlds, a singleness complete. - Love is the Law of Land God’s oneness, my companions, is the only law of being. Another name for it is Love. To know it and abide by it is to abide in Life. But to abide by any other law is to abide in non-being, or Death. Life is a gathering in. Death is a scattering out. - Life is a gathering in. Death is a scattering out. In gathering and binding he is in keeping with The Law; and Life is his reward. In scattering and unbinding he sins against The Law; and Death is his bitter prize. - The most unsparing judge of Ignorance is Ignorance itself id:: 630b5143-9aab-4082-b5c7-263faca4aa03 - **Yet you, the self-condemned, would sit in judgment over men who are, like you, ==already self-condemned==**. How horrible the judges and the judgment! Less horrible, indeed, would be two gallows-birds each sentencing the other to the gallows. Less laughable two oxen in one yoke each saying to the other, ‘I would yoke you’. Less hideous two corpses in one grave exchanging condemnations to the grave. Less pitiful two stone-blind men each plucking out the other’s eyes. Shun every judgment seat, my companions. id:: 630e8260-9d96-486a-b1ce-2384e419a54a - ==Shun every judgment seat, my companions.== For to pronounce a judgment on anyone, or anything, you must not only know The Law and live conformably thereto, but hear the evidence as well. Whom shall you hear as witnesses in any case at hand? - Whom shall you hear as witnesses in any case at hand? Shall you summon the wind into the court? For the wind aids and abets in any happening beneath the sky. Or shall you cite the stars? For they are privy to all things that take place in the world? Or shall you send subpoenae to the dead from Adam till this day? **For all the dead are living in the living**. To have an evidence complete in any given case the Cosmos must needs be the witness. - For all the dead are living in the living - #ghostfromthepast - To have an evidence complete in any given case the Cosmos must needs be the witness. ==When you can hail the Cosmos into court, you would require no courts. You would descend from judgment seat and Let the witness be the judge.== When you know all, you would judge none. When you can gather in the worlds, you would condemn not even one of those who scatter out. For you would know that scattering condemned the scatterer. And rather than condemn the self-condemned, you would then strive to lift his condemnation. id:: 630b539d-8ab2-47fa-9a9b-6987f1b013e1 - Each judgment is an added burden, alike to the judge and the judged. If you would have your burdens light, refrain from judging any man. - Let Understanding guide your steps if you would have your pathway straight and smooth. - - Use Logic To Get Rid of Logic collapsed:: true - Have you been judge so long and have not yet found out that the only use of Logic is to rid Man of Logic and lead him to Faith which leads to Understanding? id:: 63bc1deb-4bd5-46d4-9100-aa1c0f2e1b40 - Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. - Logic is a crutch for the cripple; but a burden for the swift of foot; and a greater burden still for the winged. id:: 63bc1e72-e051-41e2-9710-5106c4c85d49 - - Mirdad On Prayer collapsed:: true - You pray in vain when you address yourselves to any other gods but your very selves. - For to be able to receive a thing is to be able to bestow it also. ==Where there is hunger, there is food.== Where there is food, there must be hunger too. To be afflicted with the pain of hunger is to be able to enjoy the blessing of being filled. - Yea, in the want is the supply of want. - Aye, many and divers are the tasks that men assign to God. Yet few men seem to think that if, indeed, G**od were so charged with many tasks, He would perform them all alone and would require no man to goad Him on, or to remind Him of his tasks.** - Why do you press your puny selves with all your trifling needs upon His memory? - Are you less favoured in His sight than sparrows, corn and spiders? - Why do you not, as they, receive your gifts and go about your labours without ado, without knee-bending, arm-extending, and without peering anxiously into the morrow? - If God, having given you the seed of His godhood, were to attend it and not you, what virtue would you have? And what would be the labour of your life? And if you have no labour to perform, but God must perform it for you, of what account were, then, your life? Of what avail were all your praying? - [Implore Him Not] ==But search the vastness of your hearts.== For in the vastness of the heart is found the key to every door. And in the vastness of the heart are all the things you thirst and hunger after, whether of evil or of good. id:: 6554db80-dfc2-4e66-af3a-c9367716a138 - - Random Highlights collapsed:: true - By merely thinking I you cause a sea of thoughts to heave within your heads. That sea is the creation of your I which is at once the thinker and the thought. id:: 62ab6170-01d8-4685-8fac-e8ef81e4a983 - By merely feeling I you tap a well of feelings in your hearts. That well is the creation of your I which is at once the feeler and the felt. id:: 62ab6041-af48-44f3-868d-5bbaff9388ed - By merely saying I you bring to life a mighty host of words; each word a symbol of a thing; each thing a symbol of a world; each world a part component of an universe. id:: 62ab60eb-46d2-4d7c-81ee-7a4d9fab5f6b - That universe is the creation of your I which is at once the maker and the made. If there be some hobgoblins in your universe, know that the I in you alone has brought them into being. id:: 62ab60e7-daa7-4dcd-90b6-62a6008882f3 - As the creator, so is the creation. Can anyone overcreate himself? Or anyone undercreate himself? Himself alone – no more, no less – does the creator procreate.ƒ