There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.
When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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