Many people ‘react’ and then ‘regret’. Learn therefore to ‘reflect’ and then ‘respond’.
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
