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In A Deep Metaphysical Sense, All That Is Conditioned Is Illusory. All Phenomena Are Literally 'appearances,' The Outer Masks In Which The One Reality Shows Itself Forth In Our Changing Universe. The More 'material' And Solid The Appearance, The Further Is It From Reality, And Therefore The More Illusory It Is.

To Me In My Childhood, Elves And Fairies Of All Sorts Were Very Real Things, And My Dolls Were As Really Children As I Was Myself A Child.

Quick Condemnation Of All That Is Not Ours, Of Views With Which We Disagree, Of Ideas That Do Not Attract Us, Is The Sign Of A Narrow Mind, Of An Uncultivated Intelligence. Bigotry Is Always Ignorant, And The Wise Boy, Who Will Become The Wise Man, Tries To Understand And To See The Truth In Ideas With Which He Does Not Agree.

Karma Brings Us Ever Back To Rebirth, Binds Us To The Wheel Of Births And Deaths. Good Karma Drags Us Back As Relentlessly As Bad, And The Chain Which Is Wrought Out Of Our Virtues Holds As Firmly And As Closely As That Forged From Our Vices.

The Man Of Meditation Is The Man Who Wastes No Time, Scatters No Energy, Misses No Opportunity.