Lucy A. MalloryЛюси Малори

3. Before labor and capital can be rightly adjusted, capitalists and laborers will have to do away with the old Mosaic law of “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth;” and put into operation the Law of Love — do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

Lucy Mallory.

1. Narrow is the way that leads to life, and few find it. Few find it because the majority go by the broad way, the one by which everyone goes. But the true way is narrow, wide enough for one man only. And to find it one must go not with the crowd, but after those solitary men — Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Christ — who for themselves and for all of us, one after another, cleared one and the same narrow road.

After Lucy Mallory.

1. No one can hinder a man’s spiritual development except himself. Neither physical weakness nor mental incapacity can be an obstacle to the development of the spiritual nature, for the development of the spiritual nature lies only in the increase of love, and nothing can hinder this increase.

Lucy Mallory.

4. The thoughts we have cultivated will color, in our minds, everything we have to do with. If the thoughts are erroneous they will distort the most sublime truths. The atmosphere that emanates from our habitual thoughts is a more solid structure around us than the house we live in. It is like the snail’s shell — we carry it with us wherever we go.

Lucy Mallory.

5. Our thought, good or bad, sends us to paradise or to hell, not in heaven and not under the earth, but here, in this life.

Lucy Mallory.

7. If the time and the energies now spent on attacks on the rich, and on attempts to devise means of changing the existing order of life and establishing a just division of wealth, were spent on the work of self-perfection, there would quickly come that change for the better in our political, social, and moral life which we so desire. Were humanity to learn to think rightly, our world would become as happy as it is now unhappy. But the people do not want to know the truth that makes free, because it runs counter to the political and religious errors to which they have grown accustomed.

Lucy Mallory.

1. How strange it is that the various societies for the defense of children and the protection of animals are wholly indifferent to vegetarianism, when it is precisely the eating of meat that is, in most cases, the cause of the very cruelty they want to combat by means of punishment. The fulfillment of the law of love can restrain cruelty more powerfully than the fear of criminal liability. There is hardly any difference between the cruelty committed in torturing and killing to satisfy one’s feeling of anger and the cruelty committed in torturing and killing to make use of the flesh of animals, by feeding on which people kindle in themselves the chief fire of cruelty.

Lucy Mallory.

4. A traveler came up to some African cannibals while they were eating some kind of meat. He asked them what they were eating. They answered that the meat was human.

“Can you really eat that?” cried the traveler. “Why not? With salt it is very tasty,” the Africans answered him. They were so used to what they were doing that they could not even understand what the traveler’s exclamation was about.

In just the same way meat-eaters do not understand the indignation that vegetarians feel at the sight of pigs, lambs, and oxen eaten only because their meat is tasty with salt.

After Lucy Mallory.

6. Only when you fulfill the truth you know will a new truth be revealed to you.

Lucy Mallory.

3. When we are at our weakest physically, we may be at our strongest spiritually.

Lucy Mallory.

3. As a drunken man standing at the edge of an abyss answers with foolish laughter and indecent talk the warnings of people who want to keep him from falling, so our world, drunk with impure lusts of every kind, mocks the prophets who want to save it from the fate that threatens it. Now, as in ancient times, one may say: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children, as a bird gathers its young under its wings, but you did not want it.”

Lucy Mallory.

4. The state of our consciousness means more to us than the judgment of the whole outside world, for we live in our consciousness continually and forever. Our happiness or unhappiness depends not on how others regard us but on how we regard ourselves. Improve yourself, your soul, and by this you will do the very best you can do, both for yourself and for others.

Lucy Mallory.

8. Culture is a veneer that more often covers ignorance than enlightenment.

Lucy Mallory.

3. For man there is no higher good than to work unselfishly for the good of others — to work for the eternal good. When people submit to the common interest as they now submit to their personal strivings, then they will know peace and happiness, and there will open before them those endless manifestations of heavenly wisdom that they do not see now.

Lucy Mallory.

7. Self-love is a prison for the spirit; it takes away happiness as surely as a jail takes away physical freedom.

Lucy Mallory.

3. The thoughts you have and express turn, in the end, into a capacity to do good or evil, a good or evil that in its development or growth comes back to you.

Lucy Mallory.

6. Thought is a rational vital force which, going out from a man, does either the work of a curse or the work of a blessing, according to its quality.

Lucy Mallory.

2. We are both our own saviors and our own destroyers. Nothing outward can do a man harm. If he lives by the laws of his being, no evil will touch him, even amid the destruction of matter and the ruin of worlds.

Lucy Mallory.

9. I can send my thoughts to different people; they will cross the seas and take possession of all lands, if only there is in them the divine power of love and wisdom. My thoughts are spiritual parts of my self and can therefore be in thousands of places at once, while my body at any given moment can be in only one place.

Lucy Mallory.

5. In vain will you look in the outer world for answers to the questions concerning the purpose of life. The answers to all your questions lie within you, but only in germ. You must grow your answers by a good life. This is the only path to wisdom.

Lucy Mallory.

1. Mockery has never harmed truth, but the growth of truth stops in the mocker.

Lucy Mallory.

3. The perfection of individual people and of society is never attained for all time, for every time has its own perfection.

Lucy Mallory.

5. As one cannot break an egg with a chick sitting in it without danger to its life, so one man cannot free another without danger to his spiritual life. When the spirit has reached a certain growth, it will break its fetters itself.

Lucy Mallory.

6. Life is an unceasing miracle. Knowing what growth is, we know the most hidden of nature’s mysteries.

Lucy Mallory.

5. Humanity is beginning to be keenly conscious that all must rise or fall together. People listen more and more to the voice that speaks unceasingly within us.

Lucy Mallory.

4. The law of life is that the invisible produces the visible. The cause is hidden, the effects are seen. The cause is infinite, the effects are finite. To believe in the invisible is to believe in the cause of every force; to acknowledge only the visible is to be useless, unfruitful, transient, mortal.

Lucy Mallory.

3. Every thought a man dwells on, whether he expresses it or not, inevitably either harms his life or helps it.

Lucy Mallory.

6. A disorderly thought does to our mind what a disorderly man would do to our house if we invited him to stay with us.

Lucy Mallory.

5. As a man feels himself to be in his soul, so, in essence, is his God: either kind, loving, just, or vengeful, wrathful, and malicious.

Lucy Mallory.

3. Abstinence from meat is spreading more and more. There is hardly a city of any size now that does not have from one to a dozen or more vegetarian restaurants, where food is prepared without meat.

Lucy Mallory.

2. Most people are prodigal sons and daughters, who squander their vital powers and means on what has no value at all. They go farther and farther away from their “father’s house,” feeding, like the prodigal son, on husks; at last spiritual poverty compels them to return to their “father’s house,” and then, like infants, they have to learn the way of true life from the very beginning.

Lucy Mallory.

1. Live not so that others think of you in a certain way, but so that you yourself think well of yourself.

Lucy Mallory.

4. The nations of the earth tremble and shudder. Everywhere one feels some working of forces, as though preparing an earthquake. Never before has man borne so enormous a responsibility. Each moment brings with it more and more weighty cares. One feels that something great must come to pass. But before the appearance of Christ the world was awaiting great events, and yet it did not receive him when he came. So now too the world may be undergoing the pangs of birth before his new coming and still not understand what is happening.

Lucy Mallory.

4. The church, the state, and society have certain typical molds into which the thought of the young is cast. And when the time comes at which the distinctive traits of the new generation ought to have shown themselves, it turns out that its thought has already ossified in these molds and can take in nothing new.

Lucy Mallory.

4. To tie oneself to a certain idea is almost the same as tying oneself to a post set in the ground. The measure of freedom a man will enjoy will depend wholly on the length of his tether, and the greatest freedom will be enjoyed by him who ties himself to the idea of the good of all.

Lucy Mallory.

5. What you do to others, you do to yourself. That is why every deed of mercy makes you feel kindness within you, and a deed of cruelty, malice.

Lucy Mallory.

3. To insist on applying the ancient and outworn laws that stand in our statutes is the same as making the people of our time live in the houses and use the tools of our ancestors, who lived several generations before us.

Lucy Mallory.

1. The man who seeks happiness in outward prosperity builds his house upon the sand; lasting happiness can be given only by the accord of the inner life with the will of God.

Lucy Mallory.

1. When truth presents itself to its enemies in an irrefutable form, they bring into play the last means at their disposal: the blackening of the people who express the truth. But in throwing mud at the people who express the truth, they only cover the seed of truth with earth, and it springs up all the faster.

Lucy Mallory.

3. False science and false religion always express their dogmas in high-flown language, which seems to the uninitiated something mysterious, important, and attractive. The reasonings of learned men are often as little intelligible, not only to others but to themselves, as the discourses of professional teachers of faith. The learned pedant, using Latin terms and fancy words, often makes of the simplest thing something as unintelligible as the Latin prayers of the priests are to their illiterate parishioners. Mysteriousness is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a man is, the simpler the language in which he expresses his thoughts.

Lucy Mallory.

2. Most people want to know God and do not want to know themselves. But let them acknowledge and nurture the good within themselves, and then they will know God, for there is no other way to the knowledge of him.

Lucy Mallory.

3. When man asks nature what he is, he receives no answer, for only he himself is the answer to this question; he must know himself.

Lucy Mallory.

6. For the vast majority, their inner world is like an ocean so wide that they do not dare to explore it; but sooner or later they will have to enter it and seek in it that heavenly haven which they sought in vain in the outer world.

Lucy Mallory.

3. Our newspapers, with their descriptions of crimes and horrors of every kind, are a sort of supplement to breakfasts of meat. Is there anything surprising in the fact that people who have subjected their souls and bodies to the pernicious influence of the one and the other are afterward found to be inclined to quarrels, wars, and suicides? Would it not be strange to see them happy after such a beginning of the day? The enervating influence of their spiritual and bodily food must inevitably bring them to a state of constant unrest, torment, and despair.

Lucy Mallory.

4. A man who lives for the body may lose his way in the tangled labyrinths of the contemplative or the sensual life, but the soul always unerringly knows the truth.

Lucy Mallory.

5. There is no lack of spiritual food; all that is lacking is the capacity to take it in. It is not for lack of air that a dying man cannot breathe, but for lack of the capacity to assimilate it. All the elements — physical, mental, and spiritual — that have been or ever will be in the world are in it now as well. The work of wisdom is to understand how to master them.

Lucy Mallory.

1. To assimilate the truth is no easy matter for people full of errors, for harmful influences of every kind strive with extraordinary force to keep their power over them. And so one must seek out the truth with particular persistence and hold to it.

Lucy Mallory.

5. The same thing happens with our higher feelings as happens with all our faculties in general. If we do not exercise them, we stop noticing that we possess them. People who never exercise their faculties become insensible to their existence.

Lucy Mallory.

4. God is not an idol to be prayed to and flattered; God is an ideal that man must embody in his everyday life.

Lucy Mallory.

3. Society says to a man: “Think as we think; believe as we believe; eat and drink as we eat and drink; dress as we dress — or be cursed.” And if anyone does not submit to it, it will turn his life into a hell with its mockery, gossip, abuse, boycott, and ostracism. But take courage.

Lucy Mallory.

3. Strength is involved in loving each other; weakness, in antagonizing each other. United, in Love, we stand; divided, in discord, we fall.

Lucy Mallory.

3. When anyone becomes attached to some single idea, even a true one, he is in fact in the same position as a man who had tied himself to a post so as not to lose his way. What may be a welcome truth at a certain stage of spiritual growth may be a hindrance to that growth, and an error, at another, higher stage.

Lucy Mallory.

5. Much of our worrying comes from trying to set other people right, and neglecting our own wants in this direction.

Lucy Mallory.

3. A thousand voices from without call us aside; only one faint inner voice, the voice of conscience, can be our sure guide.

Lucy Mallory.

3. We must not flee from this LIFE because evil turns out to be bound up with it. Evil is our own doing, the consequence of our ignorance of the true law. Ignorance of the true law makes us unhappy in this life, and it will make us unhappy everywhere. Let us begin, then, by freeing ourselves from our ignorance, and our unhappiness will cease of itself.

Lucy Mallory.

2. The house in which a man lives may be ruined and destroyed; but the dwelling that the spirit builds for itself out of pure thoughts and good deeds fears not even eternity, and nothing can harm the one who lives in it.

Lucy Mallory.

2. Missionaries zealously spread Christianity in India. But can church Christianity give India a more enviable lot than the one she had in the past? Can it give her more intellectual and spiritual strength than she has, and has had from time immemorial? Has church Christianity a higher conception of the omnipresent, almighty and all-knowing Deity than the followers of the Brahmin teaching have? Can the thought of a God who walked in the garden with Adam and Eve and did not hear what they were saying because he had gone some distance away from them, who took fright at an assault on his heavenly stronghold by the builders of some tower, and ate roast lamb with old men, who flew into a rage over all kinds of trifles and every so often cursed the unhappy people he had created for their mistakes — can the thought of such a God be anything higher than the conception of an invisible, all-knowing, almighty being who shows his will everywhere in the universe? And belief in the divinity of Christ, in his incarnation, resurrection and atoning sacrifice? Is it not blasphemy to drag the highest and greatest being into the affairs of mortals? If the Hindus must believe in incarnation, why should they not believe in the incarnation of Krishna or Rama; why must they believe not in them but in Christ? Yet God, as is said in the truly sacred scripture of mankind, has no body, and was not born (John 4), and cannot become incarnate. The teaching of the resurrection is no more than a fairy tale: the grave has never given up its dead, if they were truly dead. As for the atonement, that teaching contradicts even the most primitive notions of justice.

Lucy Mallory [Arya Patrika].

3. We see the world through the medium of our ideas, not as it is, but as our ideas color it. Hatred is like putting on black spectacles — everything we look at appears to be dark and dismal.

Lucy Mallory.

2. Life is continually changing its garments (forms). It is only the ignorant, who perceive but the surface of things, who think that life can be annihilated because it disappears in one form. But if it disappears in one form, it is only to reappear in another. The caterpillar disappears, but it re-appears as a butterfly; the infant disappears, but the youth appears in place of it; the animal man disappears, but reappears as a spiritual man.

Lucy Mallory.

2. It is not the condemnation of evil but the exalting of good that establishes harmony and unity in personal life and in the life of the world. Man condemns evil and him who does it, and this very condemnation of evil and of those who do it only helps evil to grow; whereas paying no heed to evil and caring only for the good destroy evil.

Lucy Mallory.

1. Harmonious growth, in nature as in man, always takes place in silence, in stillness; only what is destructive, vicious, and coarse is noisy.

Yet few understand how necessary a life of stillness and silence is for true spiritual growth and development. For the most part people live in bustle and turmoil, and are bored when they have to be alone.

Only in the stillness of solitude can a man find the mighty power of life and growth. Christ said this very thing in the words: “But when you pray, go into your inner room”... The world is in dire need of this silent growth for peace to be realized. It is drawn away from true spiritual growth by thousands of voices that promise it salvation in the form of various new teachings, which supposedly can save it.

We need to be more in stillness, and the voice of silence will tell us the truth that will make us free.

Lucy Mallory.