It Is A Way. Quotes
The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.
...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?
All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.
Words have to die if humans are to live.
Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.
If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.
Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.
You learned this, ” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”“Er…yes?”He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.
There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.
I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don’t arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation is one way to get there through practice.
In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of meditation a day helps us to do this, let's go for it!
Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each day - is the key to developing inner steadiness and calm.
Genuine goodness isn’t discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.
I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones
Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei
The outward light is but a reflection of the inner.
As great as is the light above us, greater by far is the light within.
Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?
Light chases away darkness.
Millions of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the lifespan of that single candle will never be shortened! Feel free to share your success stories with every loved one out there
Trust doesn't mean that you trust that someone won't screw up— it means you trust them even when they do screw up.
Trust is like a glass vase, beautiful except there is no way of putting it back together when it breaks.
I have seen the best in you, I have seen the worst in you and I am yet to see a lot in you.
Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.
Sometimes the ones you trust aren't the most trustworthy. Just better actors.
He in any form was a drug to the addiction of being desired while she was always wanted.
When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good!
Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.
The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.
Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are. It is forgivable to lose them...It is unforgivable not to reclaim them.
One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.
You are still thinking like a child, talking about friendship and crap. You’ll regret it when you see one of them die in front of you.
Look up, greet sparks of fire with salted eyes, For he’s a burning atmospheric sigh:One blaze of liquid flame on midnight sky, Soft orbital decay, and last goodbye.
But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.
No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.
I will bear this grief, I will endure it. I will reach a point where it doesn't kick me down an abyss whenever I turn my back on it.
How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we actually find out when it comes to us?