If there is a difference of opinion between the heart and head, then follow the heart.
-Swami Vivekananda
If there is a difference of opinion between the heart and head, then follow the heart.
-Swami Vivekananda
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
One is absolutely sickened, not by 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.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
-Lao Tzu
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
To uphold righteousness, so supreme an act did he perform; he gave his head, but did not utter a word of sorrow. For the sake of righteousness, he did this great heroic deed; he laid down his life but not the principles… Guru Tegh Bahadur broke his earthly vase on the head of the Emperor of Delhi – and went to the abode of God.
It is difficult to know why God reveals Himself to some and plays the game of hide-and-seek with others.
-Baba Ram Dass