Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit…
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
Words lead us to the doorway of truth, but only by contemplating their meaning can we pass through.
Internally I am a hermit, and externally I am a prince. Arms mean protection to the poor and destruction of the tyrant. Baba Nanak had not renounced the world but had renounced maya, that is, self and ego.
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. Strength may be physical, or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
The essence of the offering is that it be analogous to the sin, and that a man offer to God his desires and passions, for this is more acceptable than all.
