The True Man
Words of Wisdom
If there is something truly important in this world, it is to know ourselves; yet, rare are those who know themselves. Moreover, even if the following statement seems incredible, in this life it is difficult to find a single person who has his vocational sense developed.
When someone is totally convinced about the role that he has to perform in his existence, he then makes an apostleship, a religion out of his vocation, thus, becoming—as a fact and by his own right—an apostle for humanity.
Life is a well of joy, but where the (fornicating) rabble also drinks, there all wells are poisoned.
I appreciate all that is clean (chaste); but I do not like to see the grinning snouts of the unclean (the fornicators).
They cast their eyes into the well (of Yesod: sexuality); now their disgusting smile reflects back up to me from the well (meaning, through their lust they want to justify their lewdness, saying that sex is only for fornication and procreation as animals).
They have poisoned the holy water with their lustfulness, and when they called their filthy dreams “pleasure,” they poisoned the language too. –Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: On the Rabble
Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know , Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God ‘s own way.
What is the highest Good? Much talk hath been hereof and high debate: I swear the highest Good is Love. Love is the Lord of All. Even the Trinity Hath been in thrall to Love from all eternity. Love is God’s nature. He can do naught else. Wouldst thou be God, then likewise love in every instant’s Now. Beauty is born of Love alone. The Countenance Divine Hath all its Loveliness from Love, else it would cease to shine. Love is the measure of the heart’s Felicity; The more ’tis filled with Love, the happier thou wilt be. Pass through Love’s gate if thou wouldst go the shortest way to God… — Angelus Silesius (1624-1677)