All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Swami VivekanandaRead
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All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)
Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.
Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
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