Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation; therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book?
Love is the scent with the lotus born. It is the silent choirs of petals singing winter’s harmony of uniform beauty. Love is the song of the soul, singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets – sun and moonlit.
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
