equently every
child is heir of the whole even as the apostle Paul said, joint
heir with Christ. Register, then, deeply in memory, side by side
with the historic maxim for all times, This too shall pass away!
the religious maxim for all souls. Over those things for which men
struggle with each other, there is one thing, out of the sphere of
struggle, which belongs indivisibly to every man, and that one
thing is the whole universe! Then, should you ever feel vexed or
disheartened by the irritations and failures you meet in your
journey through the evanescent masquerade of this world, pause and
say to yourself, Is it worthy of me, while the entire realm of
existence asks me to appropriate it in ever expansive possession,
to be angry or sad because some infinitesimal speck of it does not
grant me as much of itself as I crave?

The more things we love the richer we are. The fewer things we
care for the freer we are. O blessed wealth and wretched freedom,
how shall we perfect and reconcile them? This is the secret: If we
love the divine and eternal in everything, and care not for the
limiting and perishable evil connected with it, then we shall at
once be both rich and free. The former practice educates our
powers; the latter emancipates them. The true use of renunciation
is as a means for larger fulfillment. Detach from lower and lesser
objects in order to attach to higher and greater ones. Be always
ready to renounce the meaner at the invitation of the nobler. The
soul, like a grand frigate, may be loosely tied by a thousand
separate strings, but should be held firm by one cable. Our
relations to fellow creatures are those threads; our supreme
relation to God, that cable. Those are the gossamer of time; this
the adamant of eternity.

The lame man cries, O, that I could walk! He who can walk says, O,
that I could fly! If he could soar, he would sigh, O, that I were
omnipresent, and therefore had no need to move! The end of one
wish is but the beginning of another; and the craving of every
human soul, let loose in sincere expression, is absolutely
illimitable. It always comes, in the last analysis, to this; every
one really longs to be God. Therefore, unless the rational
creation is mendacious, to be deified, is, in some mystical but
true sense, the final destiny of all souls. Every one, in its
consciousness fully developed and harmonized, shall become a focus
of universal being, a finite reflex of God, the infinite God