The Open Secret

The divine Idea that lies at the bottom of Appearance; open to all, seen by almost none. World = realized Thought of God. This sacred mystery while others forget it, the prophet or poet knows it, he has been driven to know it, he finds himself living, in it, bound to...

The Faith

What care I for caste or creed? It is the deed, it is the deed. What for class or what for clan? It is the man, it is the man; Heirs of love, and joy, and woe, Who is high and who is low? Mountain, valley, sky and sea, Are for all humanity. What care I for robe or...

Aim of Relegion

Not the question about God, and not the origin and inquiry into the origin and the purpose of the world is religion, but the question about Man. All religious views of life are anthropocentric. Religion = that activity of the human impulse towards self-preservation by...

Healthy Minded Optimism

All invasive moral states and passionate enthusiasms make one feelingless to evil in some direction. The common penalties cease to deter the heroic patriot, the usual prudences are flung by the lover to the winds. When the passion is extreme, suffering may actually be...

Theodore Parker

“I have done wrong things enough in my life, and do them now; I miss the mark, draw the bow, and try again. But I cannot sit down and whine and groan against not-existent evil.” MARIE BASHKIRTOEFF “I enjoy weeping, I enjoy my despair; I enjoy being...