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July 2, 2007
the voice of a better and higher self
One will succeed in raising one’s conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is the servant. And one will not return to skepticism or cynicism, and not belong to the foul mockers.
One sees the same thing in Jesus too, who first was an ordinary carpenter and raised himself to something else, whatever it may have been, a personality so full of pity, love, goodness, seriousness that one is still attracted by it. Generally, a carpenter’s apprentice becomes a master carpenter, narrow-minded, dry, miserly, vain; whatever might be said of Jesus, he had another conceptions of things that my friend the carpenter of the backyard, who has raised himself to house-owner, and yet is much more vain and thinks more of himself than Jesus did.
Van Gogh
Posted by amin at July 2, 2007 8:00 PM