Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
In all debates let truth be thy aim; not victory or an unjust interest; and endeavor to gain rather than to expose thy antagonist.
Those who trust us educate us.
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these.
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
The more experiments you make the better.
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
