“But when this Impermanence is realised and known, Craving itself dies out,-for all this thirst after possessions depends on the illusion that these may be held and kept for ever”

The Law of Righteousness. By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“But when this Impermanence is realised and known, Craving itself dies out,—for all this thirst after possessions depends on the illusion that these may be held and kept for ever” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “this is in Buddhism accounted the true beginning of all righteousness,-unselfishness that gives all, whilst knowing yet that it shall never reap the gain”
  2. “It is the darkest hour in all the evolution of a man, this realisation that the Self that he has striven to perfect and work for is no more than a delusion;-but it is also the darkest hour which goes before the dawn;-for soon that darkness passes, giving way to the light of a deeper and surer Wisdom”
  3. “wherever that ill delusion of the Higher Selfishness exists in man, there is his altruism tainted”
  4. “he is the Builder of a future which no illusion of himself can inherit, and the one Law of all his being is uttermost Compassion, his life lived only for love’s sake, lived only to alleviate the sorrows of the world”
  5. “what evil or what cruelty of man but has sprung only from that chiefest of illusions, Self, from that sad separateness of thought”