Now is the time when your action is practice.
By setting our motivation strongly in the morning when our mind is fresh and clear, we are much more likely to remember it during the day and act with that intention.
Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.
All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.
When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.
There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.
People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat...
True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.
Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.
We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.
Passion is what gives sense to our life.
If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.
Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, ‘Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.’ On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, ‘Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.’
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.“”Laughter is good for thinking because when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds.
Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.
You’re happy when you help others become happy.
Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up.