Purpose

You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Christ wasn’t a Christian and Buddha wasn’t a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn’t Muslim.
“The Hindu scriptures speak of the body as a machine fraught with six delusive deficiencies: ‘It exists; it is born; it grows; it changes; it decays; and it is completely annihilated.’ Yet most human beings expect permanent happiness from this impermanent body.”
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Presence is needed to become aware of the beauty, the majesty, the sacredness of nature.
Zen masters use the word satori to describe a flash of insight, a moment of no-mind and total presence.
You deserve to know the truth, heal, and reclaim your freedom. You are not here to suffer or age before your time. You are not here to live with symptoms and conditions that science and research don’t have answers for. You are here because you and what you can offer in this life is unique and important. And you deserve nothing less than to heal and live that out.
Religion is just a path for finding truth: Religion is not truth. It is just a path. And different people follow different paths.
Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are.
When you choose to live from a place of love, you are free to be yourself, to connect with your desires, and to take action from a place of empowerment. When you choose to live from a place of fear, you are always trying to fit in, denying who you really are in order to satisfy the expectations of others. The latter not only deprives you of [continue reading...]
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...]
True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it’s the presence of justice.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
The time is always right, to do what is right.
Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.