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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. read more
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one read more
I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.
On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one read more
On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots
There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute read more
There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.
In the faces of men and women I see God.
In the faces of men and women I see God.
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
