Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.
Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.
Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don’t want to get off. Don’t blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing.
Don’t blame; forgive. All healing is self-healing.
The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.
Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.
I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage – very important things to me – and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.
We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us.
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
There is no higher religion than human service.
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for.
It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.
Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.
A good example has twice the value of good advice.