Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the real you sleeping in your heart.
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realise how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
The best way to find your self is to lose yourself in the service of others… All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
