Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do [...]
Compassion defined Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration; Womanly ingenuity set to work by womanly compassion. –Macaulay. Syn: Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling; mercy; condolence. Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.) Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with [...]
When difficulties arise, we project our frustration onto them as if it were the rain, the children, the world outside that was the source of our discomfort. We imagine that we can change the world and then be happy. But it is not by moving the rocks that we find happiness and awakening, but by [...]
This content originated in the author’s handwritten collection of spiritual quotes, a blank, spiral-bound "One Spirit" journal. Perhaps it will be important for certain readers – the more inquisitive ones, in particular — to learn more about the filter through which all of this material had to successfully pass before being included in this collection. [...]
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning one’s self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding [...]
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity… (Thomas Hardy) Discipline of self is necessary for the development of any virtue, and patience is no exception. One’s external actions begin with interior dispositions. One’s path is crossed, darkness falls, giving way to resentment and anger. One must learn to remain unmoved and with tranquil [...]
Before perusing this site, it may be beneficial to ingest this sage advice discouraging closed-mindedness: There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation. (Herbert Spencer) Simplicity. Patience. [...]