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Lucis Trust / Service Activities / Triangles / Bulletin / Recent Issues / March 2008 / Musings on Reverence |
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Musings on Reverence
The One who rules over every source,
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him—that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Two things draw me to reverence: the starry heaven above and the moral law within.
He who knows God reverences Him.
The most elementary ethical principle, when understood by the heart, means that out of reverence for the unfathomable, infinite, and living Reality we call God, we must never consider ourselves strangers toward any human being. Rather, we must bind ourselves to the
Reverence for the Eternal trains men to be wise.
Revere the Maker; fetch thine eye
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
God sent his Singers upon earth
The more completely a man lives, the more largely alive he is in every part of him—in brain, and heart, and hands—the more completely he will comprehend the magnitude of life, and stand in reverence before the Power that moves and governs it.
After the lights of inspirations have rayed out and their mysteries have been deposited, do not seek their continuance, for you have in God one who enables you to dispense with everything; but nothing enables you to dispense with God.
God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice!
Thou knowest my tongue, O God,
Reverence for God is the thread upon which the various good qualities of men are strung like pearls. When this string is severed, the pearls scatter in all directions and are lost one by one. | |