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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the Heart is completely awake, then it needs no friend.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

If we develop concern for other people’s welfare, share other people’s suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think only of ourselves and forget about others, ultimately we will lose. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.

Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

With our thoughts we make the world.

Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.

Everything that’s coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it’s attracted to you by virtue of the images you’re holding in your mind. It’s what you’re thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

The first peace, which is the most important,is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship,their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universedwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

Grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God.

A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the ‘enemies’ who appear from time to time in our lives.