On a Steamship -2

Let the long accepted axioms of every-day life be dislocated like a hillside in a landslip. To give is a better bargain than to get. In the sound of your voice T dwell as in a world defended from evil. * * * * No volcano bursting up through peaceful pastures is a...

On a Steamship

From Note Book 3 of ‘In Woods of God-Realization’ The cheerful, elderly spinster brings her camp-stool on deck, and chats to a companion . . . laughing hysterically over her own fears, and how she pushed against the side of her berth in the night when it...

Home

From Note Book 3 of ‘In Woods of God-Realization’ Among all men my home is; I have seen them and there is no people, unto the ends of the Earth, with whom I will not dwell. I give my body to the sea and to the dust . . . to be dashed on the rocks, or to...

Private Property

From Note Book 3 of ‘In Woods of God-Realization’ Legal Ownership is essentially Negative. It is the power to prevent other people from using* A man may have (own) a fine telescope but be quite incapable of using it, yet he has the legal power to prevent...

Causation

From Note Book 3 of ‘In Woods of God-Realization’ 1. In music the symphony is not understood by examination and comparison of the notes alone, but by experience of their relation to the deepest feelings; and Nature is not explained by laws, but by its...

How to mark homes happy

When a great famine or plague visits a province, the people are united, the ill feelings are quieted down. Thus feeling alike is a great bond of union. So, a household may be made happy if the husband and wife begin to desire alike. This similarity of feeling secures...