Inspirational Quotes
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.
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.
We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.
Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction
Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.
If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds.
Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.
Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.
The more love you give in your day-to-day life, the greater the magnetic power of love you have in the field around you, and everything you want will fall at your feet.
If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.
Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.
To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done.
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
