For when the vain imagination and ignorance are turned into an understanding and knowledge of the truth, the claiming anything for our own will cease of itself – Theologia Germanica Read More
I don’t know Who – or what – put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone – or Something – and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal – Dag Hammarskjöld Read More
Life is a place of service. Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness – Leo Tolstoy Read More
You may possess the power and might of a world ruler, but unless you gain mastery over your own mind, when the time of death arrives you still haven’t attained the power of freedom. So gain mastery over your mind! – Padmasambhava Read More
When we have passed beyond enjoyings, then we shall have Bliss. Desire was the helper; Desire is the bar – Sri Aurobindo Read More
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it – Reinhold Niebuhr Read More
Take the present situation as it is and try to deal with what it brings you in a spirit of generosity and love – Evelyn Underhill Read More
Wisdom is not to be found in the art of oratory, or in great books, but in a withdrawal from these sensible things and in a turning to the most simple and infinite forms – Nicholas of Cusa Read More
Though the years may creep ahead, mind itself can never age. This mind that’s always just the same. Wonderful! Marvelous! When you’ve searched and found at last the one who never will grow old – ‘I alone!’ The Pure Land where one communes at peace is here and now, it’s not remote, millions and millions of leagues away – Bankei Read More
