A Library of Wisdom

“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

“Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.”

“Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.”

“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery.”

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first.”

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”

“The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy.”

“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world.”

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”

“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.”

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond.”

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

“The only thing that matters is what you do right now, in this moment.”

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”

“What we think, we become.”

“What we resist, persists. What we befriend, we transcend.”

“The heart knows no borders.”

“The infinite is present in the finite of every moment.”

“The nature of mind is such that the more you cultivate it with patience and discipline, the more it will flourish.”

“Knowledge is not found in books alone; it is found in the heart.”

“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

“The self is only a thought.”

“All this complexity is just the same one thing, looking at itself from different angles.”

“The seed of suffering is in the seed of happiness, and the seed of happiness is in the seed of suffering.”

“The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision.”

“The supreme art is to break the ego without destroying the person.”

“The highest wisdom is to realize one's own nothingness.”

“You are not separate from the whole. You are the whole, pretending to be a part.”