May 18

One cannot say that the consciousness of the divinity of your soul gives you power. This consciousness elevates a human being to a sphere where there is no longer any notion of strength and weakness and, consequently, of power.

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The heavens are nearer than the earth to people who have cleansed their souls and who are free of doubt.

Even those who have all the knowledge that can be acquired from the five senses will get no benefit from it unless they know the true nature of things.

True knowledge in relation to any one thing is the understanding that the True Being exists within it.

— The Kural

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Let no one think that there is any other birth for the soul besides becoming aware of the True Being.

Those who have taken this path will never turn back.

— The Kural

3

He who knows that power is inborn, that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere, and so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself, stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles; just as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.

— Emerson

4

People will ask you: how do you know God? Tell them: because he is in my heart. If this was not true, people would be completely powerless. Look upon the Self-Existent not with these eyes of yours, but with the eyes of your heart. Can the one who does not know himself know God? True self-knowledge is the knowledge of God.

— Persian wisdom

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Who can harm you and who can be more powerful than you when you have merged with God? And you can do it.

6

One thing we know, or may know, if we will—that the heart and conscience of man are divine; that in his perception of evil, in his recognition of good, he is himself a God manifest in the flesh; that his joy in love, his agony in anger, his indignation at injustice, his glory in self-sacrifice, are all eternal, indisputable proofs of his unity with a great Spiritual Head.

— John Ruskin

The one who recognizes the divinity of his soul and lives by it has everything that he can desire for his wellbeing.