Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to forgive ourselves.
04091 – Fear Makes Things Difficult!
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03615 – Criticizing a System
When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.
03587 – Mind Your Own Business
One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.----------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version:...
03579 – Love: Our True Destiny
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone--we find it with another.
03560 – Achieving Greatness
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
03492 – Becoming Wounded Healers
Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not "How can we hide our wounds?" so we don't have to be embarrassed, but "How can we put our woundedness in the service of...
03428 – True Happiness
True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is shared. There is no end to the sharing of love, &, therefore, the potential happiness of such love is without limit.
03326 – What are You Planting Today?
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. What are you planting today?--------------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: Every moment and every event of every person's life on earth plants...
03318 – The Cosmic Dance: Always There
The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life…the more we involve ourselves in sadness, absurdity, and despair. But it does not matter much, because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is...
03241 – Move That Ladder!
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.