I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
God’s purpose in creating the universe was to feel happiness when He saw the purpose of goodness fulfilled in the Heavenly Kingdom, which the whole of Creation, including man, could have established.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
-Thomas Jefferson
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
-Winston S. Churchill
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
It is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
-Lord Byron
There is no evil that cannot be done by the liar, who has transgressed the one law of truthfulness and who is indifferent to the world beyond.
Cosmic consciousness is consciousness of the Divine in the entire universe, in all things, in all the world, in all nature.