Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Peace is its own reward.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Where love is, there God is also.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.