Our Quotes of the Day:
Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Worth says little; wisdom says plenty.
When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Your actions are your only true belongings.
Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.
Sad news, hard news you will hear, but not to lose peace. It's possible. We have to pass through, it is not appearing possible to you now, but one day because we all have to grow we will.
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
Peace follows love energy like a shadow.
It is impossible to understand what exists through reasoning or intellectual debates. Absolute truth cannot be scientifically proven because it cannot be observed, verified, or demonstrated through sensory perceptions. (...) This is why scientists cannot come to any objective conclusion about the immortality of the soul and the afterlife, and in any case, nothing could convince them. (...) The objective world is only half of the universe. What we perceive through our senses is not the world in its entirety. The other half, which includes the mind, thoughts, and emotions, cannot be explained by sensory perceptions of external objects. (...) The soul has not been created. It is essentially consciousness and is perfect. After the dissolution of the gross body, everything remains latent. The soul survives.
The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.
When you cannot hold the body still, you cannot hold the brain still. If you do not know the silence of the body, you cannot understand the silence of the mind. Action and silence have to go together. If there is action, there must also be silence. If there is silence, there can be conscious action and not just motion.
Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.
Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.
A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.
Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.
Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.
The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.
