Many good sayings are to be found in holy books but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
All the lights of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of inner light of the Self.
Good judgment comes from experience and often experience comes from bad judgment.
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
