One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
