If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn, out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
These are times when anger, fear and hatred are giving rise to devastating problems throughout the world. But I believe we have a valuable opportunity to make progress in dealing with them, through collaboration between religion and science.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
