A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
Non-violence is the article of faith.
Non-violence is the article of faith.
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The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
