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But, a very few days afterwards, I understood it well enough; for I had so much to think of, and such reasons for self-recollection in what I saw before me and our Lord dealt so lovingly with me, in teaching me in so many ways, that I had little or no need whatever of books.
If a sharp penance had been laid upon me, I know of none that I would not very often have willingly undertaken, rather than prepare myself for prayer by self-recollection.
A but slightly known country lay ahead. Solitude and self-recollection are good for the soul if it would possess itself in peace. The fair brightness of the Indwelling Light had not been obscured in her during these months devoted to the world and to society. But it was inevitable that her consciousness of it, and consequently its clear-shining, should have suffered diminution at times.
Then for the first time she gave one long sob of self-recollection, and pushed the button. Burke almost immediately opened the door. Ruth had no intention of entering; it would be sufficient to leave her message and hurry home. "Who's there?" asked Burke, peering out into the darkness. "It's a divil of a night for any one but " "Is Dr. Kemp in?"
For this purpose it is advisable to consecrate certain times, preferably a certain time each day, to self-recollection; to dedicate an hour or a half-hour, if no more can be spared to seeing one's life in all its relations; that is, as the poet has put it, to seeing life "steadily and seeing it whole."
While the silence and the "sad serenity of the azure vault," incline the soul to self-recollection, the vigor and gayety of nature spread into the heart and make it eager for life and living. Spring is upon us. Primroses and violets have already hailed her coming.
Rossitur seemed as unconscious of her niece's mute agony as she had been of her agony of words; and it was from Fleda's own self-recollection alone that she fought off pain, and roused herself above weakness to do what the time called for.
But if the ego is to perceive itself, it cannot merely surrender itself; it must first, by inner activity, draw up its own being out of its depths, in order to become conscious of it. A new activity of the ego begins with this self cognition,—with self-recollection.
We can be happy anywhere together." If there was not much in the reasoning, there was something in the tone of the words, to bid Mrs. Rossitur bear herself well. Its tremulous sweetness, its anxious love, was without a taint of self-recollection; its sorrow was for her. Mrs. Rossitur felt that she must not show herself overcome.
A profound silence and unvarying look and posture announced the self-recollection and mental devotion of the Quakers. Mr. Ambrose led his son Edwin round all these different assemblies as a spectator. Edwin viewed everything with great attention, and was often impatient to inquire of his father the meaning of what he saw; but Mr.
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