Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Respect for others means offering criticism only where there is the strength to withstand it.
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Sit up straight! Don't slouch! Sit still, will you!! These were our mothers' mantras as they tried to help us create good manners and good posture for our coming life adventure. It was as if they knew that our physical posture has a direct connection with our mental posture. For many of us, during these speedy times, it's much easier to lapse into slouching, lazy thinking and the copying of others' noisy habits. A quiet and focused mind is a luxury we have not yet rediscovered. Only we know our own inner posture - and only we can change it. What is your inner posture? Describe it in one sentence. Is it straight, brimming with energy, and yet quite still on command? No? Then there is work to do. Real work. Inner work. Sit up straight! Don't slouch! Sit still!
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
A gentle form of encouragement can enable us to believe in ourselves again and renew our optimism and trust.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Its a great idea in sport. Too many fouls and your out of the game for a short period. The same happens in real life, but we are not aware of it. Sin essentially means forgetfulness, or more specifically, to forget yourself, to forget who you truly are, a pure, peaceful and loving spiritual being who occupies and animates a physical form. It is this forgetfulness that makes us commit what we call sinful action. If you are insulted by another person, and you become angry in response, the sin is the anger which you create not the insult. You are asleep to the truth that you just hurt yourself, and that you are the creator of your anger not the other person. And now you have a recording in your consciousness that contains an image of the other surrounded by the energy of anger. You put it there, not them. Next time you see them, up comes the anger again, and in that moment you are at your least effective, paralysed by self created anger, you are effectively out of the game until you cool down. Interesting isnt it. Never get angry, at anything, or anyone, anytime. Its a sin!
It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
