Direct the mind resolutely towards God, restraining the senses in their various seats, and looking on the state of the body as a matter of indifference. Realise your oneness with God, remaining continually intent on identifying with its nature…for what use is there in other, empty things?
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If you speak or act with an evil thought, pain follows. If you speak or act with a pure thought, happiness follows, like a shadow that never leaves.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
He is the true hero who fights to protect the helpless; though cut limb from limb, flees not the field.
