When we feel powerless in a hostile world we can at least practice quelling the enmity in our minds.
I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will
I exist in the paradise of my mind.
Learning to forgive is the greatest way to find inner peace.
Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where...
Nothing in this world can touch or affect the one who remains in the focused pure applied awareness of the Self, the Soul {shuddha upayogi}.
Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there...
I knew to put on my favorite earrings. Sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. You tend to your spirit through the body.
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content
Man was made to sit quietly and find the truth within.
I sense that he is not an alien persecuted and fleeing, but rather with an open chest, not thinking about anything, not yearning for anything, fully immersed in the peaceful, pure, near present. He is...
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...