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Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.
Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some
The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.
O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful.
I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.
There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.
At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.
I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.
Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.
When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.
Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
You get into the biggest fights with the people you care about the most, because they are the relationships you're willing to fight for.