Our Quotes of the Day:
If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed hour, not fitfully, not doing it today, neglecting to do it tomorrow and the day after and then taking it up again on the fourth day. Such irregular practice is not conducive to the confirmation of the habit of retrospection.
God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.
Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so-called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone.
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything.
It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.
I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.
Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.
Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.
Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.
You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.
We must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquers enemies, but perishes at the root.
Breath and mind are correlated. When your mind is restless, your breath is restless. A restless mind causes pain.
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove.
He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.
