Meditation Means This Opening Out Of The

There Is A Charm In Making A Stew, To The Unaccustomed Cook, From The Excitement Of Wondering What The Result Will Be, And Whether Any Flavour Save That Of Onions Will Survive The Competition In The Mixture.

It Is Impossible For Anyone Who Studies The Life And Character Of The Great Prophet Of Arabia, Who Knows How He Taught And How He Lived, To Feel Anything But Reverence For That Mighty Prophet, O­ne Of The Great Messengers Of The Supreme. And Although In What I Put To You I Shall Say Many Things Which May Be Familiar To Many, Yet I Myself Feel Whenever I Re-read Them, A New Way Of Admiration, A New Sense Of Reverence For That Mighty Arabian Teacher.

Beauty Is No Dead Thing. It Is The Manifestation Of God In Nature. There Is Not One Object In Nature Untouched By Man That Is Not Beautiful, For God's Manifestation Is Beauty. It Shines Through All His Works, And Not Only In Those That May Give Pleasure To Man.

No Durable Things Are Built On Violent Passion. Nature Grows Her Plants In Silence And In Darkness, And Only When They Have Become Strong Do They Put Their Heads Above The Ground.

The Position Of The Atheist Is A Clear And Reasonable One. I Know Nothing About ‘god’ And Therefore I Do Not Believe In Him Or In It; What You Tell Me About Your God Is Self‐contradictory, And Therefore Incredible. I Do Not Deny ‘god,’ Which Is An Unknown Tongue To Me; I Do Deny Your God, Who Is An Impossibility. I Am Without God.