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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

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.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.

For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.

You’ve traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I’ve picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they’re much easier to carry.

Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

I believe that if humanity is looking for happiness, it should combine religious spirituality with the virtues of liberty.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.