Words to Live by Compiled by Raj Shah
Posted on: August 1, 2018 by: Deshvidesh
| Ahimsa is not a policy for the seizure of power. It is a way of transforming relationships so as to bring about a peaceful transfer of power, effected freely and without compulsion by all concerned, because all have come to recognize it as right. |
| — Thomas Merton |
| If thou shouldst say, “It is enough, I have reached perfection,” all is lost. For it is the function of perfection to make one know one’s imperfection. |
| — Saint Augustine |
| Like a ball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within. |
| — Yogabindu Upanishad |
| “O You who believe! Enter absolutely into peace. Do not follow in the foot steps of satan. He is an outright enemy to you.” |
| — Holy Quran: 2/208 |
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| Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love him as they love their cow – for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. |
| — Meister Eckhart |
| Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love dwelling in your heart. |
| — Bhagavad Gita |
| Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation. |
| — Shvetashvatara Upanishad |
| “There is no compulsion where the religion is concerned.” |
| — Holy Quran: 2/256) |
| I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power that can move the world. |
| — Mahatma Gandhi |
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Posted on: 07-31-2018 by: Deshvidesh
Categories: Education, Raj Shah, Religion, Word to live by
