When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.
-Swami Dhyan Giten
"The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life"
Quotations
Heart
Better a blush on the face than a blot on the heart.
-Miguel De Cervantes
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
-Khalil Gibran
The heart is an organ of fire.
-Michael Ondaatje
"The English Patient"
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
-Vincent van Gogh
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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 sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child
-Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
-Thich Nhat Hanh "Thich Nhat Hanh"
Every person has both a bad heart and good heart. No matter how good a man seems, he has some evil. No matter how bad a man seems, there is some good about him. No man is perfect
-Proverbs "Mohawk Tradition"
