The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
-Socrates
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the five fundamental elements - earth, water, fire, air and space were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning.
The only way to achieve freedom is to free your mind from the world we live in.
-Salvatore Palladino
All wrongdoing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrongdoing remain?
Nature has not bestowed any such power to a human being that allows him to
give permanent happiness to anyone. For that, a person has to work hard and
put in efforts himself.
-Deep Trivedi