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"The Divine" and "Man"
For those who are afraid of a word: This is what we mean by “Divine'': all the knowledge we have to acquire, all the power we have to obtain, all the love we have to become, all the perfection we have to achieve, all the harmonious and progressive poise we have to manifest in light and joy, all the new and unknown splendours that have to be realised. 7 September 1952 The Divine is indeed what you expect of Him in your deepest aspiration.
What is God?
God is the perfection that we must aspire to realise. 8 November 1969 The Divine is the perfection towards which we move. And if you like, I shall lead you to Him very willingly. Have confidence. 17 December 1969
Every being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant; and although no being in the whole universe is as weak as man, none is as divine as he. 2 October 1951 Page ― 17 The individual existence is a canticle perpetually renewed, that the universe offers to the inconceivable splendour of the Divine. 29 November 1954
With regard to the Truth, we are all divine; but we hardly know it. And in us, it is precisely that which does not know itself as divine which we call “ourselves''.
Our worth lies only in the measure of our effort to exceed ourselves, and to exceed ourselves is to attain the Divine.
Human mediocrity is intolerable. We aspire for a knowledge truly knowing, for a power truly powerful, for a love that truly loves.
Suffocated by the shallowness of the human nature we aspire to the knowledge that truly knows, the power that truly can, the love that truly loves. 24 April 1964 Who am I?
The Divine under many disguises. 1966 Page ― 18 |