Being formed into a nation takes some doing.
A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.
When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you.
Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.
To inspire others Is to be immediately rich In the inner world.
To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.
The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.
Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.
I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.
A radiant fellowship of the fallen.
Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case. " The first part of that reassured her. The second part. . . not so much. "What kind of improvements?" "Oh, nothing, really. Mostly just streamlining. You really did very well; I certainly don't want you to think that I am one of those people who has to be in control all the- Oh, well, I suppose that's actually true- I do have to be in control all the time. But only because I am in charge, of course.