I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
-Theodore Roosevelt
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
-Theodore Roosevelt
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
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.
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
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
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
The effects of all our actions are experienced instantaneously in the form of the
state of mind they elicit... Those who are laying the web of religions in the name
of doctrine of Karma are simply being deceitful.
-Deep Trivedi