Those who are merciful have mercy shown them by the Compassionate One, if you show mercy to those who are in the earth, He Who is in heaven will show mercy to you.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
A life of turbulence and noise may seem desirable to one who leads it, but wisdom is a pearl found only in still waters.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
True freedom means to be beyond the influence of people and possessions.
If at any time I begin to lose hope in myself, let me simply look inside my heart and see all the good actions I have ever performed, from the smallest to the
grandest. When I see how much happiness I have given, I easily remember the purpose of my life.
But of course in Oriental cultures, they don't think of God as an autocrat. God is the fundamental energy of the world which performs all this world without having to think about it.
Do everything you have to do with love not anger. You are not able to achieve as much with anger as with love.
Allow the Source of Being to maintain contact with you: ignore the impressions and opinions of your customary self. If this self were of value in your search, it would have found realization for you. But all it can do is to depend upon others.
Whatever you do, do it with your entire being. Put your heart and soul into it.
