Thoughts

Are thoughts, then, dangerous? To bodies, yes!

The thoughts that seem to kill are those that teach the thinker that he can be killed. And so he "dies" because of what he learned. He goes from life to death, the final proof he valued the inconstant more than constancy.

Surely he thought he wanted happiness. Yet he did not desire it because it was the truth, and therefore must be constant.

Reason will tell you that you cannot ask for happiness inconstantly. For if what you desire you receive, and happiness is constant, then you need ask for it but once to have it always.

And if you do not have it always, being what it is, you did not ask for it.

What is the holy instant but God's appeal to you to recognize what He has given you?


Here is the great appeal to reason; the awareness of what is always there to see, the happiness that could be always yours. Here is the constant peace you could experience forever.

Here is what denial has denied revealed to you.