When out of gratitude we use our candle to light other people’s candles, the whole room gets brighter. This is why we transfer merit to others. This kind of light is continuous and inexhaustible. – Master Sheng Yen, “Rich Generosity”
A sense of ease and wellbeing with the breath can do a lot more for you than any amount of status, material gain, praise, outside pleasures—any of the ways of the world. – Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Less is More”
Ramana Maharishi says : “The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge the progress.”
Muhammad says : “One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.”
Lord Buddha says: “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”
Swami Chinmayananda says : “Every experience in life can make you either bitter or better. You have to make the choice.”
Shirdi Sai baba says : “If you are wealthy, be humble. Plants bend when they bear fruit.”
“I tell you this: let an intelligent person who is sincere, honest and straightforward come to me, and I will instruct him, I will teach him Dhamma. If he practises as he is taught, then in seven years he will…
Taizan Maezumi says : “Just live that life. It doesn’t matter whether it is life or hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal, it’s okay; just live that life, see. And as a matter of fact no…
Everybody is looking for something that isn’t available. It’s worse than looking for a needle in a haystack; at least the needle is there, even though it is hard to find. But satisfaction and self are both delusions, so how…