The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.
What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.
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