Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Category Archive: 1861
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
I aspire only to silence.
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.