As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.
Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, ‘I and my Father are One.’
Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, this you will become.
He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and bitter fruitage of his own husbandry.
As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be.
Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.
The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.
There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.
The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires – and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.