Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness – Henrik Ibsen Read More
To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own – Meister Eckhart Read More
At any given time, we’re thinking a myriad of thoughts, perhaps about what happened before, what’s going to happen later, that awful thing so-and-so said about us. The Buddhists call this kind of thinking the jumping monkey. Thoughts race at one hundred miles an hour, but just because a thought enters your awareness doesn’t mean you have to nourish it with your attention. To create space for a miracle, tame that jumping monkey. Spend a few minutes in stillness. If your mind jumps, sit still anyway. Practice stillness so you begin to establish a center, a point from which you can perceive and move and recognize that empty place – Mary Manin Morrissey Read More
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice – Mahatma Gandhi Read More
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you – Henri Frederic Amiel Read More
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbour… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting – Mother Teresa of Calcutta Read More
The first step is to look within, the discriminating contemplation of the self. He who remains at this point only half develops. The second step must be a telling look without, independent, sustained contemplation of the external world – Novalis Read More
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer – say, traveling in a carriage or walking after a good meal or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Read More
