The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Because of the great differences in our ways of thinking, it is inevitable that we have different religions and faiths. Each has its own beauty. And it is much better that we live together on the basis of mutual respect and mutual admiration.
With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.
Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.
We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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