"Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,But for another gives its ease
And builds a heaven in hell's despair.— Blake
```Love so beautifully idealised can be materialised if it springs from its Highest Source and has no link with anything inferior here below.
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"I was angry with my friend.I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;I told it not, my wrath did grow.
— Blake
```Wrath is a weakness worth getting over. Again it cannot disturb the inner equilibrium, which is worth everything.
> Good to forgive. Best to forget.
> — BrowningBetter than best is to remain unaffected by the shocks of the world.
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"Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tellThe torture of that inward hell!"
— Byron
```To nurse an inward hell and escape the penalty is to ask for too much.
> I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
> — ByronAll the greater glory to the Source which has given the fame!
> We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
> — GoetheMay the world realise this truth!
> Light — more light.
> — GoetheInfinite is the thirst for the Infinite.
> A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
> — KeatsBecause it is the reflection of the All-Beautiful.
> Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
> — KeatsBecause our great origin is both Truth and Beauty.
> We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
> — LongfellowHence says the Seer-Poet:
> And belief shall not be till the thing is done.
> — Sri Aurobindo, Savitri```
Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream.
— Longfellow
```Rather, life, the great gift of God, is a splendid field for self-realisation.
> Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
> — MiltonThat is the sign of a great spirit perverted.
> To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering.
> — MiltonWeakness is an implied denial of one's true self.
> What is done can't be undone.
> — ShakespeareTrue in a limited context, never an absolute truth.
> Brevity is the soul of wit.
> — ShakespeareAnd silence can tell even more than brevity.
> Our sweetest songs are those that tell us of sweetest thought.
> — ShelleyThe Shelleys of the future will hear sweetest songs inspired by all-blissful thoughts.
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"The desire of the moth for the star,Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afarFrom the sphere of our sorrow.
— Shelley
```Our Shelleys of the New Age will be singing of the transformation of the sphere of our sorrow into the sphere of our Delight!
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"My strength is as the strength of ten,Because my heart is pure.
— Tennyson
```Let us look forward to the New World that is manifesting in the old — to the New World that will be full of Sir Galahads but with their hearts absolutely true to none and nothing else than the Divine and His Influence.
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"'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.
— Tennyson
```True, perhaps on the human plane. But true love is Love divine that knows no loss.
> I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
> — WhitmanThe true seer-eye of the poet foresaw the possibility that is now on the point of realising itself.
> If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.
> — WhitmanBecause the human body is the very temple of God.
> Minds that have nothing to confer find little to receive.
> — WordsworthAnd it may well be added: Minds that have little to perceive have nothing to confer.
> The gods approve the depth, and not the tumult of the soul.
> — WordsworthAs a portion of the Infinite, the soul can have depth, height and breadth without measure, but tumult can never belong to the soul. It is a play of the inferior vital.
From:Sri Chinmoy,Mother India's Lighthouse: India's spiritual leaders, Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1971
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