If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits – Ludwig Wittgenstein Read More
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission – Arnold Bennett Read More
Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker. Soft speech is the expression of genuine love. Hate screeches; fear squeals; conceit trumpets; but love sings lullabies, it soothes, it applies balm. Practise the vocabulary of love; unlearn the language of hate and contempt – Sai Baba Read More
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth – 1 John 3:18 Read More
The perfect person does good through love. His actions are not motivated by desire for personal benefit, so he does not have personal advantage as his aim. But as soon as he has realised the beauty of doing good, he does it with all his energies and in all that he does – Clement of Alexandria Read More
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content – Helen Keller Read More
There is no man that he is not at some time indebted to his vices, as no plant that is not fed from manures. So we convert the base into the better nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson Read More
One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness – simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream – George Sand Read More
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another – Thomas Merton Read More
