(Sermons and Writings)
Being & Doing
There is an organic connection between being and doing – being in its endless manifestation and doing with their seats in the being, deriving all their meanings and significance from it. Being without its activities is a static entity – a mere abstraction and a figment of imagination. Activities without a reference to Being is a loose chaotic mass, a mere chance production without unity, without plan or purpose. Being or perfection is the end and aim realised in and through all.
The Law of Growth
Growth is from simplicity to fuller and richer simplicity – from integration to higher integration. Differentiation is a necessary stage and marks a period of transition. The unity breaks up into differences to be organised into the higher synthesis – the differences revealing only the rich contents of the unity, making the vague and the indefinite definite, homogeneous unity of heterogeneity. The process is none the less from unity to unity – unity realizing itself in and through the differences that form its rich contents. The unity is the beginning, it is the end. The end is at the beginning as the creative and organizing principle. Growth means the unfolding of the contents thus making the unity and simplicity of life richer and fuller.