Don't forget to love yourself. It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile. |