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It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.
For each believes his lamp to be the light of day!
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
As a man is, so he sees.
Enough to think that truth can be;
Come sit we where the roses glow;
Indeed he knows not how to know
who knows not also how to unknow.
I have often found a small stream at its source, that, when followed along its course, carried away the camel with its load.
He who knows not,
And knows not that he knows not,
Is a fool — shun him.
He who knows not,
And knows that he knows not,
Is a child — teach him.
He who knows,
And knows not that he knows,
Is asleep — wake him.
He who knows,
And knows that he knows,
Is wise — follow him.
Eternity alone understands about compassion. If you therefore wish to learn to understand compassion, you must learn it from eternity. But if you wish to understand the eternal, then there must be quiet about you, while you absolutely center your attention on inwardness.
Without going out of doors, one may know the whole world; without looking out of the window, one may see the way of heaven. The further one travels, the less one may know. Thus it is that without moving you may know; without looking you shall see; without doing you shall succeed.
With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
If a man would find the Key of Knowledge, let him find himself.
If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy.
We survive in adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
I may be asked what I mean by “Inward Spiritual Freedom”… Spiritual freedom is the attribute of a mind in which reason and conscience have begun to act, and which is free through its own energy, through fidelity to the truth, through resistance to temptation… We are in the midst of influences which menace the intellect and heart; and to be free is to withstand and conquer these.
My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.
Chief among the causes of liberty is devotion, the watchfulness of the spirit towards its own nature.
Do not sit at home, do not go to the forest,
But recognize mind wherever you are.
When one abides in complete and perfect enlightenment,
Where is Samsara and where is Nirvana?
The wish to be cured is part of the cure.
There comes for ever something between us and what we deem our happiness.
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it; and with this I begin and end.
Dare to be wise!
All men wish to be happy, but are dull at perceiving exactly what it is that makes life happy.
