OF DESIRE AND ATONEMENT

WHEREVER you meet a ray of real light, a gleam of genuine beauty, a particle of true truth- go back with it to its original source. Follow the track to the end and you will find yourself in the embrace of the Divine.

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Close not your senses-however earthly they may be. Fling them all wide open-open always and everywhere, but to the Divine.

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Life itself becomes Art-the very highest form of Art-when it is moulded in the rhythm of the Supreme Beauty, when its steps follow the cadences of the Divine.

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Every softening of the heart towards things of the earth is a hardening of it to the things of Heaven.

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Of the host of desires you cherish, not many are really fulfilled; and even these are fulfilled only in a. way.

Not much is lost by not harbouring desires; mostly, it is not enjoyment of desire, but the deceptive pleasure of anticipation that you lose.

Desirelessness brings about a sovereign fulfillment, not of desires, but of the outreaching's of a divine Will in you, of which your desires are the negation.

Desire lost opens the way to the enjoyment of Delight supernal.

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There is not much virtue in going down the slope; all can do that-for the natural gravitation of the consciousness is downward He is the hero who resists the temptation to

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The only atonement for a Wrong thing done is to do the right thing on the next occasion.

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Tapasya: Never to let yourself slip down, always to maintain your progress up the slope.

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Never say, "I cannot." Look more closely, you will find that it means in reality, "I want not."

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Each difficulty can be an opportunity for a new progress. For what is meant by a difficulty? A flaw in the nature brought before the consciousness that it may be dealt with and remedied.

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Every apparent Negation is an index to an Affirmation waiting behind it.

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You increase your difficulty by thinking it difficult; consider it easy and it will be made easy to you.

Maya is real only because you are unwilling to think it otherwise; once awake from Maya and you will find not only that it is no more, but that it has never been.

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Facts by themselves are not great or small; it is the forces behind them that give them their real stature.

Facts have value in so far as they are significant-significant of forces, of dynamic possibilities that work out in and through them.

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Facts in their outward form may even directly contradict the very forces that manifest through them or are embodied in them.

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Do not turn back seeing the desert in front. Traverse it with courage and fortitude-for beyond is the promised land flowing with milk and honey.

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None is truly weak, not even any limb or element in him. One has only to open to the Universal Power, the Divine Mother; she is the origin and fountain-head of all strength and energy and she can make the mute speak and the lame leap over the mountains.

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There is no error that cannot be repaired and even turned to advantage.

There is no loss that cannot be made up and even turned to a greater gain.

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Each fall or failure should be only a drawing back so that you can leap to a greater height-till you reach the summit and fall and fail no more.

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Your past has created your present; create by your present the future.

You can not only obliterate the past, but make it even as if it had never been.

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As the consciousness rises upwards from the Present and broadens out, it not only creates the Future but also recreates the Past.

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Years are not needed to undo the sins of years-a single moment can eflace an age.

A solitary second can be the spark potent to explode a whole past.

A dip into the ocean of Grace and you come

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out clean, shedding all the Past, reborn unto the Future.

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A single drop of poison can Vitiate the entire stream of wholesome blood in the body.

But there is too a Purity, a drop of which can render crystal clear a whole morass of soil and dirt.

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