There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.
Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God’s way to human minds. But God doesn’t need explanations to exist.
Continuous external growth, like continuous inhaling, is not sustainable. But because we have been inhaling for so long, consuming for so long, even though we see that it can't go on this way, we don't know how to alter the pattern. We have to recove...
If practiced intentionally and purposefully meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, to develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.
if we make choices using Earth as the central standard, welfare as a common goal, and conscience as the absolute scale, even apparently complex changes may happen more quickly than we imagine.
When you are stressed, if you take three deep breaths before you say or do anything, this will help prevent you from making choices you might regret later.
At the very moment when we refuse to follow our conscience and refuse to be truthful, we become all the more aware of the presence of conscience and the absolute truthfulness inside.
If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.
Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.
Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.
In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.
–Entonces estás muriendo por amor, –dijo Will finalmente, su voz sonaba estrangulada a sus propios oídos. –Muriendo un poco más rápido por amor. Y hay cosas peores por las que morir.
The choice is to live a spiritual life; to live a bigger life; to live a life of service to Earth and the whole; it's choosing every day and every hour to live by your true nature at all levels of being rather than live as an individual person only o...
The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength.
The storm before the calm.
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.
