0,99 €
Mehr erfahren.
- Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
- Kategorie: Ratgeber
- Sprache: Englisch
Experience the life-changing power of Benjamin Franklin Woodcox with this unforgettable book.
Das E-Book können Sie in Legimi-Apps oder einer beliebigen App lesen, die das folgende Format unterstützen:
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020
Ähnliche
The Silence, Thoughts on the Silence and on Various Other Subjects
Benjamin Franklin Woodcox
SILENCE. It is in the silence that the master genius works. The Creator, and the created who create, work in the silence. It is in the silence that God conceived His masterpiece, and it is through the silence that this masterpiece is being evolved or created.
It is out of the silence that evolution comes. And it is through the medium of the silence that evolution is made possible. Fashioned and matured in the silence of nature, all things tend to become beautiful and great.
Destiny is to be met with in silence. That destiny that changes our lives, that opens our eyes, and that reveals to us that which has been hidden from us.
It is through the silence that we are able to tap the reservoirs of spiritual knowledge, and learn that which can never be learned in any other way.
The silence is necessary to spiritual sounds, and it is only when in the silence that we can approach sufficiently near to hear these sounds distinctly.
The spiritual ear is attuned to the silence. Therefore it is through the silence only, that we are capable of receiving a spiritual communication.
The voices that speak to us out of the silence are silent voices, though they are by no means voices that can not be heard.
The silence delivers a different message to each of us, a message that corresponds to our needs and states of development.
To some the silence speaks of the higher heavens, while to others it concerns itself merely with the things of this earth plane.
The voice of God can be heard only in and through the silence. His is a still small voice that comes to us on ethereal waves from a land that is far away.
There is a silence in which all must weep who enter, a silence that is too profound for human speech, and too full of approaching destiny to be unflinchingly borne.
The silence that is within us has a depth to which we can not go. It also has a height to which we can not climb.
To fear the silence is an admission of guilt. It is a confession that one is not living in harmony with the purpose of life. It is a confession that one is wilfully retarding and delaying one’s inner self on its way to perfection.
It is only when we are in the silence, and when all is still, that the spirit life is active and capable of accomplishing its task.
In the silence with God, or with another, there is understanding. No words need be spoken. The silence can remain unbroken forever, and yet we will know all that is necessary that we should know.
Those only who approach God through the silence can hope to draw near to Him, or to hold communication with Him. And those who would approach God must make long and careful preparation by living much of their time in the silence.
To attain to the silence is to attain to a unity, to a harmony, with God.
All that is worth while and valuable comes to us out of the silence and the invisible.
Truth comes to us in the silence—in the silence with nature and with God.
Go out into the silence of nature. Select for yourself a site that is beautiful, serene, peaceful, and far from the abode of man. There build a temple to God, and there worship God, each man alone in the silence.
NATURE. Nature is a great artist that is trying to evolve or create that which it sees, feels and knows.
The creation of life is nature’s master work, and the creation of the beautiful her pastime.
All nature, and all things in nature, fade and blend into one another. They become parts of one another, differing only in their development, their nearness to perfection, to the Divine.
All of nature’s most valuable productions are in rhyme, metre and song.
We are all one with and in nature. Not to feel this oneness is to be out of conscious harmony with all life.
We are all one with nature and in sympathy and in rapport with her, or else we are prisoners imprisoned within nature with every means of escape cut off.
The more clearly we realize this oneness with nature, the more in harmony we are with the law, and the more rapid will be our evolution.
Nature takes on the aspect of that which we are. It reflects back to us the image of ourselves. It is our friend or enemy, even as we are the friend or enemy of nature.
Nature likes us to be calm, peaceful and patient. She does not love us so fully when we assume importance and excite ourselves with that which need not concern us.
Nature is more concerned in the creation of the beautiful than she is in our conception or appreciation of the beauty that she has created.
Nature has a voice with which to speak to those who have ears to hear, but most of us are deaf or know not how to listen.
It is through the silent beauty in nature that God speaks to us the most often—not through the tempest and the storm.
Nature leads the way that we should go. She detects all our mistakes, and sees that we eventually arrive at the port of our destination.
There are two sides to nature, a visible and an invisible side. And the invisible side of nature is nature’s most important side.
If we could penetrate nature to a point where we could see both sides of nature, we could know all there is to be known.
In the realm of nature, wherever there is truth there is law, and wherever there is beauty there is joy.
Nature is the book of revelations. It is the book of laws, the guide board that leads to Heaven and to every other desirable place this side or beyond.
Observe the beauty of nature but do not seek to grasp it, in a physical sense, if you would not destroy it, or mar the greater part of its loveliness.
HARMONY. Harmony is a state of vibration. It is a being in tune with our environment, with the laws of nature and of life.
Harmony is the key to life. It is that which reveals to us whether or not we are living wisely.
Happiness is harmony. It is the result of being in harmony, though perhaps only temporarily, with life.
The exaltation resulting from our being continually in harmony with life is more profound, serene and peaceful than is mere happiness.
When there is complete harmony between the spirit- life and the physical life, then each of these lives transcends itself—becomes greater than itself.
Everything that produces harmony between us and the purpose of life is good, and greatly aids the spirit-life in obtaining its development the more rapidly.
When we are in harmony with the purpose of life we are quick to perceive the slightest spiritual jar that denotes the presence of discord. We are equally quick to be warned, and to see that the harmony that exists between us and the purpose of life is not broken.
When the harmony that exists between us and the purpose of life is broken, the stream of good that flows from the Divine to us in interrupted, and our spiritual development is retarded. When this happens our spirit- life is no longer serene, contented and full of peace.
If we are not in tune with the harmonies of the universe, how can we expect to be anything more than a discord amid the harmonies of life? And if we are a discord amid the harmonies of life, how can we expect to know the truth, or to obtain our development the more rapidly, until we have found our way back into harmony ?
Everything that is in harmony with the purpose of life is a thing of beauty.
Harmony and beauty are one. These are united in nature.
BEAUTY. Beauty is the underlying principle of life. It is of beauty that life is made up.
Everything in the universe is filled with beauty for those who are able to see. And this beauty varies and increases for us with our spiritual development.
All beauty is striving to make itself manifest to us; is striving to disclose itself to our inner consciousness.
Our spirit-life is athirst for the beautiful. The beautiful is the food and the drink of the spirit-life. It is from absorbing the beauty from the beautiful that the inner life becomes more beautiful.
Beauty is absorbed and transformed by the spirit-life into spiritual beauty.
Spiritual beauty shines through its material encasement, and is revealed to all who are in position to observe it.
Beauty is the one thing which the inner life loves, and for which it seeks everywhere.
Much of the beauty that we perceive is in the vitality. It is in the life. It is in that part of us that is invisible, and beyond the field of our physical sense of perception.
Beauty is the language with which the spirit-life speaks. And the spirit-life needs no other language with which to make itself understood.
Beauty illuminates. It lights up the darkness of life, and greatly helps us to see our way about.
Beauty points the way that we should go. And when we go the way we should, all things become more and more beautiful.
We must learn to appreciate the beauty of earth before we can hope to appreciate the beauty of a more perfect sphere.
The beauty that we see is as nothing compared to the beauty that will be revealed to us, a little at a time, as we evolve higher and higher in the scale of spirtual development.
The amount of beauty possessed by our spirit-life depends upon the point to which it has attained in its development ; depends upon the height it occupies in the world of invisible life; depends upon its nearness to perfection, its nearness to the Divine.
For him to whom the beauty of nature is concealed, life has many hard lessons, and the grave many doors leading back into the physical-material world.
The beauty of nature and of life is not for man alone. Yet woe unto the man who fails to perceive this beauty, and to appreciate it, and to make it his own.
All of the higher forms of beauty are of the spiritual plane of life, and can not be perceived by those who have not yet attained to a high state of spiritual development.
The spirit-life judges all things by the beauty they contain, and has no other standard of judgment.
Physical beauty needs to be transformed before it can be of value to the inner life, but spiritual beauty needs no transformation.
The spirit-life transforms the beautiful, and is by the beautiful transformed into something more beautiful.
We are but children lost in the beauty of an unknown life. So we fear, lest we be found out and deprived of this beauty which is our joy.
A spirit-life is a thousand times more beautiful than the most beautiful thought to which it can give birth.
