Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
-Sophocles
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
While fasting detoxifies the body, silence purifies speech and brings rest to the chattering mind, and meditation takes you deep into your own being.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
If you mould yourself according to time and let yourself flow with the changing
circumstances, see, what you will soon transform into.
-Deep Trivedi
Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
There’s nothing more advanced than relating with others. There’s nothing more advanced than communication – compassionate communication.