It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
-Swami Vivekananda
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
-Ronald Reagan
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.
The cycle of God, the good, is broken by a single act of negativity. The cycle of negativity is stopped by choosing the good.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
-Edmond De Goncourt