Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Elsa Barker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Elsa Barker.
Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Elsa Barker

Elsa Barker (1869–1954) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet. She became best known for Letters from a Living Dead Man (1914), War Letters from the Living Dead Man (1915), and Last Letters From the Living Dead Man (1919), books containing what she said were messages from a dead man produced through automatic writing.

Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.
Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.
He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love. — © Elsa Barker
He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.
I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.
There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.
I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.
The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.
Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.
Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.
The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.
There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought.
When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.
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