01-12-2021, 12:11 PM
"The most real thing is one's own soul. That may be set down as an axiom; and being true, the real business of life is to keep one's soul in the state of harmony, of love, of joy, in which along is the condition of creative activity.
As the most real thing is the soul, so the most unreal thing is any quality opposed to spiritual states, ÔÇö as envy, hatred, or despair. The circumstances or events that throw us into any of these conditions render us negative to true advancement.
And so, measuring life by the ideal, one has no moral right to let himself be so disappointed or depressed or disturbed as to be in any wise turned aside from his real business, ÔÇö the right living.
~Lilian Whiting (1847ÔÇô1942), "To Clasp Eternal Beauty: The True Realities," The World Beautiful: Second Series, 1896
As the most real thing is the soul, so the most unreal thing is any quality opposed to spiritual states, ÔÇö as envy, hatred, or despair. The circumstances or events that throw us into any of these conditions render us negative to true advancement.
And so, measuring life by the ideal, one has no moral right to let himself be so disappointed or depressed or disturbed as to be in any wise turned aside from his real business, ÔÇö the right living.
~Lilian Whiting (1847ÔÇô1942), "To Clasp Eternal Beauty: The True Realities," The World Beautiful: Second Series, 1896