Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-Erich Fromm
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realisation.
The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
-Oscar Wilde
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
The one who doesn't love himself, can never love anyone else in this world. And
if he loves himself, atleast he would not torture or trouble anyone in the name of
religion or teachings...
-Deep Trivedi