No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
-Margaret Mead
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
No individual is lost and no nation is refused prosperity and success if foundations of their thoughts and actions rest upon piety and godliness, and upon truth and justice.
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo