“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.”
-Sutta Nipata
“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.”
If someone's life is not enriched by their time with you, then you're not doing something right.
-Osayi Osar Emokpae
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.
-Mignon McLaughlin
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
The evil ruler spoils the word, the plan of life, by his teachings. He, indeed, deprives me of the exalted goal of good thought. With the word of my spirit, I pray to You, O Wise One, and to truth!
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
-Epicurus