Thoughts for the week:

April 19  THE SHINING LIGHT 

The state of your soul is always expressed in your outer conditions and in the intangible influence that you radiate at large. There is a cosmic law that nothing can permanently deny its own nature. Emerson said: “What you are shouts so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” The soul that is built upon prayer cannot be hidden, it shines out brightly through the life that it lives. It speaks for itself, but in utter silence, and does much of its best work unconsciously. Its mere presence heals and blesses all around it.

Fox, Emmet. Around the Year with Emmet Fox . Harper One. Kindle Edition. (Excerpt)

April 21  EXCEEDING RIGHTEOUSNESS 

If anyone were so insane as to suppose that the knowledge of the Truth of Being could put him “above” the moral law, in the sense of authorizing him to break it, he would speedily discover that he had made a tragic mistake. The more spiritual knowledge that one possesses, the more severe is the punishment which one brings upon oneself by any infraction of the moral law.

Fox, Emmet. Around the Year with Emmet Fox . Harper One. Kindle Edition. (Excerpt)

            

    One who repays an angry man with anger
    Thereby makes things worse for himself.
    Not repaying an angry man with anger,
    One wins a battle hard to win.

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    The fool thinks victory is won
    When by speech, he bellows harshly;
    But for one who understands,
    Patient endurance is the true victory.

            - The Buddha