When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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