Through the Gates of Gold: A Fragment of ThoughtLittle, Brown, 1887 - 110 pages |
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Page 50 - ... Spirit is the great life on which matter rests, as does the rocky world on the free and fluid ether ; whenever we can break our limitations we find ourselves on that marvellous shore where Wordsworth once saw the gleam of the gold." Virtue, being of the material life, man has not the power to carry it with him, "yet the aroma of his good deeds is a far sweeter sacrifice than the odor of crime and cruelty.
Page 79 - ... a poison, in turn. It is an implement, a thing which is used, evidently. What we desire to discover is, who is the user; what part of ourselves is it that demands the presence of this thing so hateful to the rest?" The task is, to rise above both pain and pleasure and unite them to our service. "Pain and pleasure stand apart and separate. as do the two sexes; and it is in the merging, the making the two into one, that joy and deep sensation and profound peace are obtained. Where there is neither...