When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.
The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of exper...
People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.
You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.
Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.
Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.
...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?
People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.
All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.
He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.
Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.
Cuando una creencia se transforma en algo más que un instrumento, estás perdido. Permanecerás perdido hasta que aprendas para qué es realmente la ‘creencia’.
Jesus emerges not as the cultural captive of any one group of people, but as the promise of salvation to all believers and as the foundation of liberation in this life.
With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression in her face, partly spiritual, partly spirituous, and wholly professional and peculiar to her art; Mrs Gamp rummaged in her pocket agai...
Thinking is contagious … so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully! Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people’s thinking!
