spirituality

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

Though we are emotional beings, we are not our emotions. Remember this the next time you find yourself struggling.

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

It's paramount we take ownership of our lives. Sadness is greatly due to our having sacrificed ourselves over to a power outside of ourselves. We need to be proactive in creating positive thoughts and actions that will align ourselves with where we want to be and what we want to feel in life.

Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

Your soul is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life.

It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man__ world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives.

Life is full of intriguing souls that you cannot penetrate_ An uncomfortable percentage of those anguished and impregnable souls also have suffering hearts that are further tormented by a deluded mind. They will hurt out of an impulse, and then live their lives after that without the slightest remorse.

Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good souls of this world, and who after hurting, wake up the next day without a trace of despondent brooding, and then move on with life never thinking that they should show some remorse or try to repent.

There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.