Our Quotes of the Day:
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
Never think of failure, for what we think will come about.
One who has control over his speech and actions will conquer the world.
If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.
When somebody hits at you, do not hit back but be silent.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.
In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.
Preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.
We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone.
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.
Wherever there is sincerity & talent, people do recognize them. It may take some time but we should have some patience and hold on to our passion.
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.
Without forgiveness, there can be no peace.
The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not a question of privilege or of spiritual elitism. It is a question of a grace offered to all the baptized.
Technology has made the world into a Village. Spirituality has made it into a Global Family.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.
