The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 39
Context: By contrition we are made clean, by compassion we are made ready, and by true longing toward God we are made worthy. These are three means, as I understand, whereby that all souls come to heaven: that is to say, that have been sinners in earth and shall be saved: for by these three medicines it behoveth that every soul be healed.
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“True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.”
Pebbles of Wisdom
§ 1.33
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.”
Letter to Boston Commercial Club (1879).
Patanjali, in Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AEo58-ihNygC&pg=PA205, p. 205.
“For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 54 : How I Believe In God
Context: I have no patience for churches that evangelize aggressively. I have no interest in being instructed in what I must do to be saved. I prefer vertical prayer, directed up toward heaven, rather than horizontal prayer, directed sideways toward me. I believe a worthy church must grow through attraction, not promotion. I am wary of zealotry; even as a child I was suspicious of those who, as I often heard, were “more Catholic than the pope.” If we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, we must regard their beliefs with the same respect our own deserve.