There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless these thoughts are translated into the world of action, they are useless. The wrong in the world continues to exist just because people only talk of their ideals, and do not strive to put them into practice. If actions took the place of words, the world's misery would very soon be changed into comfort.
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.
Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.
If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.