Many of the quotations you have been reading, including several directly above, are not just illustrations. They, and others which appear to be just statements, prose, or poetry, actually contain within them "hidden" practices. An example is found in "The Jerusalem Trilogy":
| "Thus every beat of heart may be a communion, the outward psychic functions revealing Adam, The inner spiritual functions evidencing Christ, the resurrected Adam through purification. Whenever man attains this blessed communion, he will never grow old, though long in flesh; he will attain to the proclaimed kingdom of Heaven, becoming perfect, even as God is perfect." -S.A.M. .......... |
| "The praise of God is the Right Path. Then there is no room for ego. The ego is not effaced, but is transmuted by joining in the praise." -S.A.M.
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| "Love depending upon a thing ceases when the thing ceases." - The Talmud
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| "Who is a hero? He who subdues his passions." - The Talmud .......... |
| "Love God and do as you will." - St. Augustine .......... |
| "A man cannot see the Kingdom of God without being born anew." - St. John .......... |
| "He who gives himself up to His Supreme Will, wins the goal. No other actions count in achieving this end." - Ramkali .......... |
| "That which is the bright space within the heart; in that this man resides, innate with mind, transcending death, with brilliancy innate." - Taittiriya Upanishads .......... |
| "Therefore if a heart is to be ready for Him, it must be emptied out to nothingness, the condition of its maximum capacity. So too, a disinterested heart, reduced to nothingness, is the optimum, the condition of maximum sensitivity."
- Eckhart .......... |