Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.
I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.
God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Since the Court took God our of our schools, we've gotten exactly what we should expect: godless schools.
Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.
Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).
It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.
But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals
Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.
Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, harmony with things as they happen.
If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.
In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
To be conscious of one's weakness and to trust in God's help is the way to authentic strength and victory.