Love cannot tolerate distance and hatred cannot tolerate nearness.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
-Dwight Lyman Moody
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
-Ray Bradbury
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
A yogi who perceives his real Self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.