5-1:
You can have all good things, wealth, friends, kindness, love
to give and love to receive once you have learned not to be
blinded by them; learned to escape from disappointment, and
from repugnance at the idea that things are not as you want
them to be.
5-2:
The truth need not be veiled, for it veils itself from the eyes
of the ignorant.
5-3:
No man should allow his mind to be a vehicle for others to use;
he who does not direct his own mind lacks mastery.
5-4:
Rest of mind is as necessary as rest of body, and yet we always
keep the former in action.
5-5:
Those who have given deep thoughts to the world are those who
have controlled the activity of their minds.
5-6:
Unity in realization is far greater than unity in variety.
5-7:
The afterlife is like a gramophone; man's mind brings the records;
if they are harsh, the instrument produces harsh notes; if beautiful,
then it will sing beautiful songs. It will produce the same
records that man has experienced in this life.
5-8:
He who depends upon his eyes for sight, his ears for hearing,
and his mouth for speech, he is still dead.
5-9:
We cover our spirit under our body, our light under a bushel;
we never allow the spirit to become conscious of itself.
5-10:
When we devote ourselves to the thought of God, all illumination
and revelation is ours.
5-11:
God-communication is the best communication that true spiritualism
can teach us.
5-12:
The mystic desires that which Omar Khayyam calls wine the wine
of Christ, after drinking which no one will ever thirst.
5-13:
Our limited self is a wall separating us from the self of God.
5-14:
The wisdom and justice of God are within us, yet they are far
away, hidden by the veil of the limited self.
5-15:
He who looks for a reward is smaller than his reward; he who
has renounced a thing has risen above it.
5-16:
The poverty of one who has renounced is real riches compared
with the riches of one who holds them fast.
5-17:
Love for God is the expansion of the heart, and all actions
that come from the lover of God are virtues; they cannot be
otherwise.
5-18:
God is the ideal that raises mankind to the utmost height of
perfection.
5-19:
He is wise who treats an acquaintance as a friend; and he is
foolish who treats a friend as an acquaintance; and he is impossible
who treats friends and acquaintances as strangers you cannot
help him.
5-20:
Insight into life is the real religion, which alone can help
men to understand life.
5-21:
The realization that the whole life must be give and take is
the realization of the spiritual truth and fact of true democracy;
not until this spirit is formed in the individual can the whole
world be elevated to the higher grade.
5-22:
The perfect life is following one's own ideal, not in checking
those of others; leave everyone to follow his own ideal.
5-23:
Every man's desire is according to his evolution; that which
he is ready for is the desirable thing for him.
5-24:
Discussion is for those who say, "What I say is right, and what
you say is wrong". A sage never says such a thing; hence, there
is no discussion.
5-25:
Tolerance does not come by learning, but by insight; by understanding
that each one should be allowed to travel along the path which
is suited to his temperament.
5-26:
So long as a man has a longing to obtain any particular object,
he cannot go further than that object.
5-27:
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own
desires, that he may thus be able to rise above them to the
eternal goal.
5-28:
The control of self means the control of everything.
5-29:
God is love; when love is awakened in the heart, God is awakened
there.
5-30:
All the disharmony of the world caused by religious differences
is the result of man's failure to understand that religion is
One, truth is One, God is One; how can there be two religions?
5-31:
The use of friendship for a selfish motive is like mixing bitter
poison with the sweet rose-syrup.