Great Throughts Treasury

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Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth, for constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.

Desire | Earth | Heaven | Means | Mystery | Vision |

Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

Going back to the origin is called peace; it means reversion to destiny. Reversion to destiny is called eternity. He who knows eternity is called enlightened.

Destiny | Eternity | Means | Peace |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Man has dual citizenry. He loves both in time and in eternity; both in heaven and on earth. But he owes his ultimate allegiance to God.

Earth | Eternity | God | Heaven | Man | Time |

Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

Heaven | Love | Will |

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A single grateful thought toward Heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Heaven | Prayer | Thought | Thought |

Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

The sage does not accumulate for himself. The more he gives to others, the more he possesses of his own. The way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.

Heaven |

Thomas Merton

Today, eternity enters into time, and time, sanctified, is caught up into eternity.

Eternity | Time |

Pierre van Paassen

The world does not stand or fall with discoveries or inventions, nor with the trample of armed hosts and the thunder of bombing planes. The world stands or falls with the laws of life which Heaven has written in the human conscience.

Conscience | Heaven | Life | Life | World |

Fritz A. Rothschild

Eternity is another word for unity. In it, past and future are not apart; here is everywhere, and now goes on forever. The opposite of eternity is diffusion not time. Eternity does not begin when time is at its end. Time is eternity broken into space, like a ray of light refracted in the water… unity is a task, not a condition. The world lies in strife, in discord, in divergence. Unity is beyond not within reality.

Eternity | Future | Light | Past | Reality | Space | Time | Unity | World |

Michael Pupin, fully Michael Idvosky Pupin

The human soul, in so far as science can penetrate, is the last chapter of cosmic history as far as it has been written. It is in the soul that Divinity resides.

Divinity | History | Science | Soul |

Baird T. Spalding

Forget the past, do not try to project yourself into the future for now is the only acceptable time. You are in eternity now.

Eternity | Future | Past | Time |