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ambition to become asceticism awakening beautiful blessed body bring brother brother's keeper cere Christ comes continually countless numbers desire destiny divine effect enter eternal fact fear feel fellow-men forget fully give god-self grasp greater greatest hand happiness harmony heart Henry Ward Beecher higher laws higher spiritual highest Holy Grail honor human soul ifold Infinite Infinite Spirit influence kind kindliness kingdom of heaven laws and forces leper lives look love and service manifest mankind Master means merely mighty mind natural law nature never one's person poor prince among men principle realization recognize rich satis saviors seeking self-centred service and self-devotion set into operation Sir Launfal sooner soul power stand thee things thou thought forces tion true truly truth unfoldment universe unto vital woman wonderful word world to-day WORLD'S A-SEEKING world's history
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Page 127 - thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to
Page 84 - and true politeness was his, because his life was founded upon the principle that continually brought from his pen lines such as: — " It's coming yet, for a' that, That man to man, the warld o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that!
Page 128 - Joseph of Arimathea, and remained there, an object of pilgrimage and adoration, for many years in the keeping of his lineal descendants. It was incumbent upon those who had charge of it to be chaste in thought, word, and deed; but, one of the
Page 129 - keepers having broken this condition, the Holy Grail disappeared. From that time it was a favorite enterprise of the Knights of Sir Arthur's court to go in search of
Page 128 - Grail, was the cup out of which Jesus partook of the Last Supper with his disciples. It was brought into England hy Joseph of Arimathea, and remained there, an object of pilgrimage and adoration, for many years in the keeping of his lineal descendants. It was incumbent upon those who had charge of it to be chaste in thought, word, and deed; but, one of the
Page 92 - thus for a while, fulfilling thy appointed time, thou, too, shall come to thyself at last. "Thy half-warm horns and long tongue lapping round my wrist do not conceal thy humanity any more than the learned talk of the pedant conceals
Page 143 - strange, inscrutable dispensations of Providence," when all is of our own making. We can be our own best friends or we can be our own worst enemies; and the only real enemy one can ever have is the self, the
Page 164 - is one with that great law of the universe,— that like attracts like. We can, by virtue of our ignorance of the powers of the mind forces and the prevailing mental states, — we can take the passive, the negative, fearing, drifting attitude, and thus continually
Page 115 - good of each, and the good of each makes the good of the whole. Attend, then, to the individual, and the whole will take care of itself. Let each individual work in harmony with every other, and harmony will pervade the whole. The old theory of competition — that in order to have great advancement,
Page 24 - he does not feel the lash the least bit when it is laid upon another man's back." Thoughts upon self ? Not for a moment. Upon others? Always. He at once