Personal Development

No matter what trials come, remember that the greatest test of one's spiritual aspiration lies in his control of himself in his own home environment  -- especially if it is a discordant one. If a person's inner peace can exhibit stability and strength at home, and if he conquers others' quarrelsome dispositions by his constant, beautiful [continue reading...]
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Life force enters the body through the agency of an interested, joyous attitude - it doesn't respond to a half-dead will! Learn to perform all your duties with a courageous cheerfulness welling up from within you. Then, as you perform your daily activities, you will see that a flood of vitality will move through all your muscles and through your [continue reading...]
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.