Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.
The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.
However you try to define meditation, it’s not that.
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.
Meditate, meditate, meditate. Then you will find that people suffer for no reason when there is the mine of bliss in everyone’s heart. Then your heart will go out in sympathy and compassion for everybody.
The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.
We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you. ' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.
God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. . . . For just an instant the sky grew luminous with angels, yet who saw the spectacle? Illiterate hirelings who watched the flocks of others, "nobodies" who failed to leave their names.
The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.