Quotes of the week
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Service to other is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Accept – then act.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Always work with it, not against it.
This will miraculously transform your whole life.
You are the sky.
Everything else is just the weather.
Fear is wetting your pants.
Courage is operating with wet pants.
We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
In the moment I want what I don’t have, all the given is gone.
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.
