You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
If we only practice compassion at the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion overriding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
The teacher should regard the pupil as his child. The pupil should regard the teacher as his parent.
