Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
-Francis Bacon
In many a form of goodness, O Love, you show your face. Grant that these forms may penetrate within our hearts. Send elsewhere all malice!
Immature love says: I love you because I need you, Mature love says: I need you because I love you.
-Erich Fromm
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.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
-Henry David Thoreau
Common people have an appetite for food; uncommon people have an appetite for service.
-J. R. D. Tata
We all have the power of thought – so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
“Make your offering,” said the Master. “As you make it be pleased in mind. Make your mind completely calm and contented. Focus and fill the offering-mind with the giving. From this secure position you can be free from ill will.”