The Happy People Are Those Who Are

No Word In Our Language - Not Even "socialism" - Has Been Employed More Loosely Than "mysticism." The History Of The Word Begins In Close Connexion With The Greek Mysteries. A Mystic Is One Who Has Been, Or Is Being, Initiated Into Some Esoteric Knowledge Of Divine Things, About Which He Must Keep His Mouth Shut.

The Soul Is Dyed By The Color Of Its Leisure Hours.

If We Feel That Any Habit Or Pursuit, Harmless In Itself, Is Keeping Us From God And Sinking Us Deeper In The Things Of Earth; If We Find That Things Which Others Can Do With Impunity Are For Us The Occasion Of Falling, Then Abstinence Is Our Only Course. Abstinence Alone Can Recover For Us The Real Value Of What Should Have Been For Our Help But Which Has Been An Occasion Of Falling. ... It Is Necessary That We Should Steadily Resolve To Give Up Anything That Comes Between Ourselves And God.

They Who Will Live For Others Shall Have Great Troubles, But They Shall Seem To Them Small. Those Who Will Live For Themselves Shall Have Small Troubles, But They Shall Seem To Them Great.

The Aim Of Education Is The Knowledge, Not Of Facts, But Of Values.