A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.
When a man honours his father and mother, God says, “I regard it as though I had dwelt among them and they had honoured me."
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Those with indomitable spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm, that is true happiness.
