Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.” *** Pray not! the Darkness will not brighten! Ask Nought from the Silence, for it cannot speak! Vex not your mournful minds with pious pains! Ah! Brothers, Sisters! seek Nought from the helpless gods by gift and hymn, Nor bribe with blood, nor feed with fruits and cakes; Within yourselves deliverance must be sought; Each man his prison makes. Each hath such lordship as the loftiest ones; Nay, for with Powers above, around, below, As with all flesh and whatsoever lives, Act [i.e. Karma] maketh joy and woe. - Buddha, The Light of Asia The branch exists only to bear the fruit The knowledge of which resides in the root Would a gardener plant and tend the vine Without the promise of the grape and wine? Before this truth let all your reason pause What you thought was effect, is but the cause. - Rumi, Farrukh Dhondy. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. Their whims, fancies and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean. The “divinity that shape out ends” is in ourselves; it is our very self. Man is manacled only by himself: thought and action are the gaolers of his fate – they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom – they liberate, being noble… In the light of this truth, what, then, is the meaning of “fighting against circumstances?” It means that a man is continually revolting against an effect without, while all the time he is nourishing and preserving its cause in his heart. That cause may take the form of a conscious vice or unconscious weakness; but whatever it is, it stubbornly retards the efforts of its possessor, and thus calls aloud for remedy. - James Allen, As a Man Thinketh. *** The voice of eternity echoes in this sacred chant, lifting the listener out of the unreal to the real, out of the trifles and vicissitudes of daily life to the realities beyond and within... https://youtube/watch?v=8FFscKqu3G8
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