Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
-Shannon L. Alder
Quotations
Heart
Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.
-Philip Reeve
Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
-Samuel Lover
The union of two hearts is a veritable sacred scriptural rite.
-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
-Nelson Mandela
He who loves me is made pure; his heart melts in joy. He rises to transcendental consciousness by the rousing of his higher emotional nature. Tears of joy flow from his eyes, his hair stands on end, his heart melts in love. The bliss in that state is so intense that, forgetful of himself and his surroundings, he sometimes weeps profusely, or laughs, or sings, or dances; such a devotee is a purifying influence upon the whole universe.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Srimad Bhagavatam 11.8"
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human ‘brain’ with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human ‘heart’ with compassion.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "The XIV Dalai Lama"
The truth is in the heart; out there is true darkness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Meditating on the lotus of your heart, in the centre is the untainted, the exquisitely pure, clear and sorrowless, the inconceivable, the unmanifest, of infinite form, blissful, tranquil, immortal, the womb of Brahma.
- Upanishads "Kaivalyopanishad"
A pure devotee’s heart is always filled with ideas about executing the Lord’s service, which is bestowed upon the pure devotee through the transparent medium of the spiritual master.
-Scriptures "Mukunda Mala Stotra"
