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One cannot help being old, but one can delay being aged.
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You have to speak up to be heard, but sometimes you have to shut up to
be appreciated.
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All we have to do is peel away the layers of beliefs and condtioning
collectively called ego, which prevent the light of our own true being
from shining forth.
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You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
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Through the human species, the universe is becoming conscious of itself.
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No one is over the hill --- they're on the back nine.
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It's never too late to heal. It's never too late to resolve unfinished
business.
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Hope is believing in spitie of the evidence,and working activly to
change the evidence.
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It is not death that is the tragedy of life. It is what you let die
while you are alive.
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There's an astonishing passion and urgency within each human being that
needs to be addressed.
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A smile is the unversal welcome.
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Deep feelings are voices to be heard and expressed to find
transformation.
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If it's a spiritual path, it's a spiritual life, not just a scripture,
prayer or sabbath. God is everywhere and present in everything.
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It's easy to get caught up in our human affairs and forget to step
outdoors and allow ourself to be defined by nature rather than by others
or own own self-images.
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You can only ask yourself, "What's the matter with me?" for only so long
before you have to either change the question or look for a different
answer.
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Spirituality is illuminating our daily life with the Divine, and
recognizing that in ourself.
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Your self doesn't stop with your skin nor end with your last word or
breath.
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Our greatest healer is right under our nose, moving within our breath,
quietly being and waiting.
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Whatever you say following the words, " I am, " if said often and with
conviction, is in fact your reality.
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Mindfulness helps you to be totally nurtured by Light, Love, and Life
all the days of your everyday expereiences.
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No matter how much we have blundered, we all have a right to go to our
home.
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Be not a puppet in ambition's hand, beaten and buffeted!
Wouldst thou be enticed and enslaved by a ruthless tyrant?
Should a child of Eternity stoop so low?
Nay, be not trapped or befooled by the seeming.
Verily thou art ever free, an heir to eternal and omniscient Life.
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Man is born to conquer nature, not to be afflicted by nature or the
world.
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We should never give way to discouragement or doubt.
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One who is wholly given to God, the world cannot hold or harm him.
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One who is attached to the things of the world, the world claims that
one.
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We cannot all be great, but we can all serve.
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Those whose hearts are full of spiritual light, they long to impart
that.
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Everyone may not be open to the highest Truth.
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It cannot be apprehended by mere intellectual cleverness, nor can it be
imparted by a little oratory.
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If Truth is clarified by the life, and the one who serves proves his
fervor and sincerity, then the sense of Divine Presence will be behind
the service and it will be living.
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If it is living, it cannot fail to be productive of good.
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But even the most unlettered can serve God.
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Emotions are signposts from which we learn about ourself.
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Burnout is not a crisis of time so much of a crisis of the spirit.
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If we live consciously, something radiates from us at all times. That
radiance is the true inheritance in the present.
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Funny thing about temper: you can't get rid of it by losing it.
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A conscience is what makes you feel guilty for doing what it wasn't
strong enough to keep you from doing.
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Standing still doesn't mean going nowhere. You're standing upon a
rotating orb.
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The less you know the more you suspect. The more you know, the more you
need to know.
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To be human is to be spiritual. And all of us are creative. There's no
distinction between being human, being spiritual, and being creative.
This is our endowment.
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We cannot render true service until we have made our body and our mind
fitting channels.
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The great thing in any kind of work is to keep ourselves quiet and
serene, never fretful or morose.
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There is but one standard in life, to love and serve and not pay heed to
the world.
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I know that Thou art in my soul.
I know this in my dreaming;
I know this in my sleeping;
I know this in my waking,-----
That Thou art my very life
Today, tomorrow, aeons hence and forevermore!
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Those of us who can turn more within, they will get more joy out of
service.
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Love, forgiveness, tolerance are qualities that come from within. They
are the result of an expansion of the soul.
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When are we happiest? When we have a sense of spiritual relationship
with mankind, then the veil of selfishness is lifted from our inner
vision and we realize the oneness of our soul with the Great Soul and
all humanity.
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We owe a certain obligation to our own spiritual being. We serve others
by cultivating it.
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When we do not seek to unfold our higher nature, we weaken our spiritual
fibre and it suffers.
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An illumined soul always understands the needs of others and perceives
the best way to meet them.
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He expresses these qualities spontaneously through every act and word.
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He has a sense of kinship with all living things and sympathy,
forbearance and loving kindness are natural to him.
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When we live our life carelessly, we defeat its purpose; we shatter our
faith and we lose our power to serve wisely.
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When it suffers, everything suffers within us. Others also suffer
through us.
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It cannot die because it is immortal, but it can suffer through our
carelessness.
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Change the story and you change the perception: change the perception
and you change the world.
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Many will adapt not because they see the light but because they feel the
heat.
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The bamboo which bends is stronger than the oak which resists.
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The master centers the clay upon the wheel first. Then the shaping
begins.
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He who loses his temper should not look for it. 60 When you're through
changing, --- you are through.
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Our suffering is created by our images of ourself by what we desire and
by what we desire to avoid.
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The world is not a bad place --- it's what we're doing to it that causes
a problem.
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The best language is the language of the heart.
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It is a fundamental thing, not something indefinite.
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We may theorize and sermonize about many things, but this does not
satisfy us.
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The practical part of spirituality and religion lies in loving, silent
service.
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Service opens a new chapter in our life.
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Service is the living expression of our thought and feeling.
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If they are right, we shall never desire to enjoy any blessing apart
from our fellowmen.
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Only way we can serve truly is to realize we are all interrelated, and
we realize this by realizing our connection with our Source.
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We perceive this only by realization of spiritual relationship.
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Serve like a mighty tree. If a branch is cut or broken by a storm, it
still continues to give shade and shelter.
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The best way we can influence another is to be consecrated to a lofty
Ideal.
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In the world of life souls seem to differ, but there is a blending
harmony running through all.
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A third type must be told again and again and never remembers.
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Try to have living spiritual intuition and feel the pulse of others.
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another must be told or corrected once only and never forgets.
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Unless you can do everything through intuitive observation, you will
have to be told always what to do and your service will be lacking.
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There are three types of people, one serves by intuition, by direct
inspiration;
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Try to belong to the first type.
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We do not tear down the body to find the immortal soul.
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Education does not mean tearing down everything we have learned already.
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The greatest service we can render any one is to unfold his higher
faculties.
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We look within for that which gives life.
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Education is unfoldment.
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When we open the mind to the radiant light of the soul we accomplish the
true end and aim of all education.
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Spiritual qualities manifest spontaneously through our life.
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When we are imbued in even a small degree with these qualities, we find
the nearness of God far more quickly than when we merely cling to dogmas
or beliefs, however lofty they may be from an intellectual point of
view.
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Service makes us bigger, more enduring, more full of compassion; and
these are the qualities which make for spiritual understanding.
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We come nearer to our Ideal through our feelings and through our
devotion and through selfless service.
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A person does not begin to do his best until body is focused and
unified.
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It is not by thinking on the body you control your body, it is rather by
thinking on higher things and relating them to body.
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Body and mind are both unified by this means and you gain poise.
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Never let your heart become ruffled by pain or pleasure, joy or
despondency.
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But body cannot be focused without the mind being focused.
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You must maintain a sense of sanctity and serenity at all times
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When shall you practise poise? Always.
/When you are in the crowd and when alone.
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