The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.
Slowly and steadily cleanse the mind; sharpen the intellect, purify the senses, and win grace.
There are many people who fast, whose fast is nothing but hunger and thirst. There are those whose prayer is no better than wakefulness and hardship. The eating and drinking in case of the former and sleeping in the latter’s case is a far better option.
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Rain down your wisdom in sacred streams to carry me like an upturned leaf through the currents of this grey day.
