The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.