If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.
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If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.
Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment. When we are completely at ease with our own being, the ripples of awareness naturally spread out in all directions, touching the lives of everyone we meet.
Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart
Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.
You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength
Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.
The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.
To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.
Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!
A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.
There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.
Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.
Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
Life is a never ending miracle unfolding in every moment, _x000D_ and if we turn our attention to that silent presence in our heart, we can participate in that miracle.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.
When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.
Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.
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