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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be read more
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the read more
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room read more
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is read more
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, read more
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
