Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of non-duality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. All separation ceases.
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
Before doing any good unto others, it is necessary for a person to know the
difference between soulful happiness and egoistic happiness. If you tamper with
someone's ego, then along with him, even you will be badly trapped.
-Deep Trivedi