The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
-William Shakespeare
Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
-Alan Wilson Watts
Love is the firstborn, loftier than the gods, fathers and men. You, O Love, are the eldest of all, altogether mighty. To you we pay homage!...
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
Choose your own way, to suit your own taste, temperament and capacity. There’s no need to criticise or condemn those who follow a different path. Spiritual hunger is the same in all – the ‘food’ to satisfy their hunger may vary.
Backward, turn backward,
O Time, in your flight make me a child again just for to-night!