To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.
God’s purpose in creating the universe was to feel happiness when He saw the purpose of goodness fulfilled in the Heavenly Kingdom, which the whole of Creation, including man, could have established.
Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niyamas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
Character is formed from the repeated choice of thoughts and action. Make the right choice-you shall have a firm and noble character.
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
-Norman Vincent Peale