Quotes

The essential quality of naturalness is the sincerity of the undivided mind which does not dither between alternatives.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness - all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow creature similarly endowed with reason and a share of the divin ...

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

Cut off your anger and cast aside your resentful expressions. Do not be angry when others are different from us. All people have minds. And the mind of each person has its own preferences. When they consider something right, we consider the same thing wrong. When we consider something right, they consider the same thing wrong. We are not necessarily wise, and they are not necessarily fools. All of us are simply ordinary human beings. Who can set up absolutely correct criteria to judge right fr ...

Instead of all the energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which would end war?