Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore, not by book, nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries comes after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
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.
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
Compassion: I don’t think that there is another world as important in marking a person’s inner growth. No other word completely conveys what this single word conveys.
Rain down your wisdom in sacred streams to carry me like an upturned leaf through the currents of this grey day.
