By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
When the era of masculine dominance comes to an end and a feminine understanding of life’s wholeness is included, experience a different world in which physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing are interdependent.
One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge.
The Gods gave a microbe a drop of water, and in it he lived. They gave an ant a half acre of land, and he prospered. They gave a tiger the forest and he formed an empire and became an emperor. They gave man the Universe and all the knowledge therein. He entered of his own free will the dungeon of Dogma, shut his mind to truth and slew and starved his brothers.
A man becomes pure through sincerity of intellect; thereupon, in meditation he beholds Him who is without parts.
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.
