I'm God because I have the power to control my mind.
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
First of all things, learn to know and love that God to who ye have a double obligation; first, that He made you a man; and next that He made you a little God to sit on his throne and rule over other men.
This was written as advice to his son, Prince Henry.
Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master.
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.
The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to the consciousness of the mortal form again. By this process, he experiences the body as merely the material dwelling place of the soul. He can remain therein as long as he wants; and after that body has fulfilled its usefulness, he can quit it at will without suffering physical pain or mental pain due to attachment, and enter his omnipresent home in God.
God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him. Whenever I fell into a state of mental stagnation, my Master could do nothing for me. But I never gave up trying to keep in tune with him by cheerfully performing whatever he asked me to do. "I have come to him for God-realization," I reasoned, "and I must listen to his advice."
Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.
Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.
It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the planetary rays, and conversely the higher we ascend in the scale of attainment, the more the man conquers and rules his stars, freeing himself from the leading strings of the Divine Hierarchies.
Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.
Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and declares that spiritual mastery is an open possibility for every member of the human race. If that is not true, then the highest promise of God is a lie.
