Hatred never ceases through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.
-Dhammapada
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Where egoism exists, Thou are not experienced. Where Thou art, is not egoism. You who are learned, expound in your mind, this inexpressible proposition.
-Scriptures
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
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Even as a mirror reflects an object held close to it, one’s behavior reflects as the ego-sense in one’s consciousness. But if held at a distance, ego-sense does not arise.
-Scriptures
It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
-Seneca the Younger
God provideth every one with his daily food; why, O man, art thou immersed planning; He putteth their food even before the insects which He created in rocks and stones.
-A Spiritual Leader
