The great Egyptian initiate Hermes has said: “Things mortal change their aspect daily; they are nothing but a lie.” Here is a saying from Hermes: “The eyes of our mentality are incapable as yet of contemplating the incorruptible and incomprehensible Beauty.... Thou shalt see it when thou hast nothing to say concerning it; for knowledge, for contemplation are silence, are the sinking to rest of all sensation.”

and this is from Emerson: “Real action is done in moments of silence.” Emerson has said: “It is god within who hushes the tongue of prayer by a sublimer thought. A voice speaks to us in the depths of the heart, ‘I am, my child, and by me are and subsist thy body and the luminous world. I am, all things are in me and all that is mine is thine. ’ ”

Saint Paul says in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians: “And we beseech you to know Them who labour among you and are over you and admonish you and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.”

Saadi, the Persian poet, has said: "Contemplate the mirror of your heart and thou shalt taste litle by litle a pure joy and unmixed peace.”

Here are the paintings of a scholar who is at once an artist and yogi , exhibited with my blessings

One can read in the Chu-king: “It is easy to know what is good, but not so easy to practice it.”

-03_Baha' Ullah.html Baha Ullah has said: “The seeker ought to avoid any preference of himself to another; he should efface pride and arrogance from his heart, arm himself with patience and endurance and follow the law of silence to that he may keep himself from vain words.” Baha-Ullah has said: “In the world of unity heaven and earth are one.”

The ancient wisdom of China says: “He who know haw to find instructors for himself, arrives at the supreme mastery.... He who loves to ask, extends his knowledge; but whoever considers only his own personal opinion becomes constantly narrower than he was.”

The Book of Golden Precepts tells us: “Silence thy thought and fix all thy attention on the Master within whom thou seest not yet, but of whom thou hast a presentiment.” In the Book of Golden Precepts we read this: “Before the soul can understand and remember it must be united to Him who speaks by His silence, as to the mind of the potter the form on which the clay is modelled.”