Mundus Vult Decipi: The World

Feelings Dwell In Man; But Man Dwells In His Love. That Is No Metaphor, But The Actual Truth. Love Does Not Cling To The I In Such A Way As To Have The Thou Only For Its " Content," Its Object; But Love Is Between I And Thou. The Man Who Does Not Know This, With His Very Being Know This, Does Not Know Love; Even Though He Ascribes To It The Feelings He Lives Through, Experiences, Enjoys, And Expresses.

Read The Bible As Though It Were Something Entirely Unfamiliar, As Though It Had Not Been Set Before You Ready-made. Face The Book With A New Attitude As Something New.

So Long As You "have" Yourself, Have Yourself As An Object, Your Experience Of Man Is Only As Of A Thing Among Things.

How Would Man Exist If God Did Not Need Him, And How Would You Exist? You Need God In Order To Be, And God Needs You - For That Is The Meaning Of Your Life.

Man Is Like A Tree. If You Stand In Front Of A Tree And Watch It Incessantly, To See How It Grows, And To See How Much It Has Grown, You Will See Nothing At All. But Tend It At All Times, Prune The Runners And Keep It Free Of Beetles And Worms, And All In Good Time-it Will Come Into Its Growth. It Is The Same With Man: All That Is Necessary Is For Him To Overcome His Obstacles, And He Will Thrive And Grow. But It Is Not Right To Examine Him Hour After Hour To See How Much Has Already Been Added To His Stature.