I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the idea that true understanding of life and eternity comes from within rather than external teachings.
Theodore Parker's quote reflects a deep philosophical perspective on immortality and the nature of existence. It emphasizes that knowledge of eternal life should not rely on what is left behind by the dead, but rather on one's own consciousness and awareness of life. This statement suggests that the essence of life and continuity transcends physical existence and invites individuals to seek truth and understanding from their own inner experience.
In practice
During a philosophical discussion on existence and consciousness.
A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, β it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.
No man is so great as mankind.
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.
Atheism is having a heyday in the born-again United States.
Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.
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