“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
