Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.
truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom.
Enlightenment is gained through ignorance. Ignorance proceeds sorrow, pain and suffering. Refinement through pain come wisdom and knowledge which in turn becomes enlightenment and to know better is to do better.
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
