Life is a series of awakenings

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.

If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

Giving is the secret of abundance.

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.