When Less Is More...

"In pursuit of the world, one gains more and more. But in pursuit of the Way one gains less and less. Loss upon loss, until at last comes rest. When nothing is undertaken , nothing remains undone."

Lao Tzu

Do Unto Others

"See yourself in others, for then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"

Gautama Buddha

True Salvation

"True salvation is fulfillment, peace, life in all its fullness. It is to be who you are, to feel within you the good that has no opposite, the joy of being that depends on nothing outside of itself. It is not felt as a passing experience but as an abiding presence. In theistic language, it is to "know God" -- not as something outside of you but as your own innermost essence. True salvation is to know yourself as an inseperable part of the Timeless and Formless ONE LIFE from which all that exists derives its being."


Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

Kindness

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." 

Aesop

 

Be Here Now

"The witnessing soul is like the sky. The birds fly in the sky but they don't leave any footprints. That's what Buddha says, that the man who is awakened lives in such a way that he leaves no footprints. He is without wounds and without scars; he never looks back -- there is no point. He has lived that moment so totally that what is the need to look back again and again? He never looks ahead, he never looks back, he lives in the moment."

Osho

Giving...

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

Maya Angelou

A human being is...

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

Albert Einstein

If you want to be happy...

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

Dalai Lama XIV