A leader has to be a samadarshi, one who sees everyone as being equal; satyadarshi, who moves with the Truth; paradarshi, who is transparent in action; doordarshi, being broad-minded and a visionary; and priyadarshi, embodying love and compassion.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
If you keep your focus fixed on the 'witness' - the one who is watching rather
than the 'ego' - the doer...your identification with the objects, people and acts will
be severed. The root cause of all the miseries of the world is our attachment with
them.
-Deep Trivedi
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
I try to avoid stress — it makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs “Urgent”!
-Terri Guillemets
