- Assume
"I see so much of injustice and inequality in this world. How can I believe it is the work of God, the Supreme Intelligence?" a friend asks.
In other words, you now assume to yourself the status of a judge with the Creator in the dock as the accused! There is a superior Intelligence within you which questions the Creator's claim to that title. The Rishi says that that Intelligence within you is God and the Creator in the dock is only the projection of your own impure mind.
- Miracle
We must turn within and ask God for His forgiveness. But superficial prayer and hypocritical approach to this problem will never solve our difficulties. It must be genuine, it must be from the bottom of our heart and soul, in which case, the miracle is worked almost instantaneously. We do not however, cancel God's prerogative to forgive even the worst sinner, but then, unless I am able to contact Him, no forgiveness is possible and this contact itself is the miracle-working Lord within us. The moment that contact is established, all sins are forgiven because all sins are only shadows minus the original sin which is "Avidya" or ignorance of our own essential divine nature or God within.
- For fault-finding
Fault-finding is as great an evil as lust, anger and greed.
- Matter and Spirit
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin had equally deep feeling for the material world through his geological and paleontological studies as for the world of the spirit. He was aware of the essential unity of matter and spirit being two aspects of one "cosmic stuff".
Ultimately it is undeniable truth that God alone is and even the distinction between matter and spirit is arbitrary.
- A Title
At the Govenor-General's party on the Queen's Birthday, somebody said in jest that I should have been given a title too! Someone said Member of the British Empire - M.B.E. would be good. But where is the Empire? I already have a title, however - M.A.N. What more do I need!