The Song of Wisdom
This wisdom is the principle of all things.
Zohar
This mysterious wisdom is the supreme principle of all.
Zohar
And when the benevolence of benevolences manifests itself, all things are in her light and in joy.
Zohar
That which satisfies the soul is the wisdom which governs the world.
Lalita Vistara
Wisdom and the Religions
May the partisans of all doctrinces in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.
Inscriptions of Ashoka
As one can go up to the top of a house by means of ladder, a bamboo or a flight of stairs, so are there various means for approaching the Eternal and each religion in the world shows only one of such means.
Ramakrishna
A truly religious man ought to think that the other religons are also paths leading towards the Reality. We should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions.
Ramakrishna
Decry not other sects nor depreciate them but, on the contrary, render honour to that in them which is worthy of honour.
Inscriptions of Ashoka
At a certain stage in the path of devotion the religious man finds satisfaction in the Divinity with a form, at another stage in the formless Impersonal
Ramakrishna
Bow down and adore where others bend the knee; for where so great a numberd of men pay the tribute of their adoration, the Impersonal must needs manifest Himself, for is all compassion.
Ramakrishna
The ordinary man says in his ignorance,‘‘My religion is the sole religion, my religiion is the best.” But when his heart is illumined by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omniscient Benediction.
Ramakrishna
Essence
The Essence of all things is one and identical.
Ashwaghosha
I looked on high and I beheld in all the spaces that which in one; below, in all the foam of the waters that which is one; I looked into the heart, it was a sea, a space for worlds peopled with thousands of dreams: I saw in all the dreams that which in One.
Jalal uddin Rumi
All souls are merely determinations of the universal soul. Bodies taken separately are only varied an transient forms of material substance.
Kapila
True knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.
Ramakrishna
The rays of the divine sun, the infinite Orient, shine equally on all that exists and the illumination of Unity repeats itself everywhere.
Bahaullah
In the world of the unity heaven and earth are one.
Bahaullah
As one sun illumines all this world, so the conscious Idea illumines all the physical field.
Bhagwad Gita
Matter and spirit are one since the first beginning.
Ashwaghosha
In the true nature of matter is the fundamental law of the spirit. In the true nature of Spirit is the fundamental law of matter.
Ashwaghosha
Beginning
Whence come these beings? What is this creation?
Rig Veda
From the immobile stone to the supreme principle creation consists in the differentiation of existence.
Sankhya Pravachana
In the beginning all this was non being. From it Being appeared itself created itself.
Taittiriya Upanishad
Seek out that from which all existences are born, by which being born they live and to which they return….From Delight all these existences were born, by Delight they live, towards Delight they return.
Taittiriya Upanishad
Divine
Who Knoweth these things? Who can speak of them?
Righ Veda
Things in their fundamental nature can neither be named nor explained. They cannot be expressed adequately in any form of language.
Ashwaghosha
Trying to give an idea of the ineffable by the help of philosophical learning is like trying to give an idea of Benares by the aid of a map or pictures.
Ramakrishna
All the sacred scriptures of the world have become corrupted, but the Ineffable of Absolute has never been corrupted, because no one has ever been able to express It in human speech.
Ramakrishna
He is pure of all name.
Rig Veda
Numerous are the names of the Ineffable and infinite the forms which lead towards Him. Under whatever name or in whatever form you desire to enter into relation with him, it is in that form and under that name that you will see him.
Ramakrishna
The being that is one, sages speak of in many terms.
Rig Veda
That which is permanent, possesses no attribute by which one can speak of it, but the term permanent is all that can be expressed by language.
Ashwaghosha
The permanent is neither existence, nor what is at once existence and non-existence; it is neither unity, nor plurality, nor what is at once unity and plurality.
Ashwaghosha
If thou say,‘‘Who is the Ancient and most Holy?” come then and see—it is the supreme head, unknowable, inaccessible, indefinable, and it contains all.
Zohar
The name of the Ancient and most Holy is unknowable to all and inaccessible.
Zohar
And it is inaccessible, unknowable and beyond comprehension for all.
Zohar
It is truly the supreme light, inaccessible and unknowable, from which all other lamps receive their flame and their splendour.
Zohar
It is not today nor tomorrow; who knoweth that which is supreme? When it is approached, It vanishes.
Rig Veda
Yes, His very splendour is the cause of His invisibility.
Bahaullah
Divine Essence
He is the supreme light hidden under every veil.
Zohar
His name is conscious spirit, his abode is conscious spirit and He, the Lord, is all conscious spirit.
Ramakrishna
He is the principle of supreme wisdom.
Zohar
Victory to the Essence of all widsom, to the unmoving, to the Imperishable! Victory to the Eternal, to the essence of visible and invisible beings, to him who is at the same time the cause and the effect of the universe.
Vishnu Purana
He who contemplates the supreme truth, contemplates the perfect Essence; only the vision of the spirit can see this nature of ineffable perfection.
Buddhist Mendicants
The Divine Becoming
The supreme Brahmin without beginning cannot be called either Being or Non-being.
Bhagwad Gita
It is itself that which was and that which is yet to be, the Eternal.
Kaivalya Upanishad
As from a fire that is burning brightly sparks of a like nature are produced in their thousands, so from the Unmoving manifold becomings are born and thither also they wend.
Mundaka Upanishad
God
He is the soul of all conscious creatures, who constitutes all things in this world, those which are beyond our senses and those which fall within their range.
Ashwaghosha
He is everywhere in the world and stands with all in his embrace.
Bhagwad Gita
All the aspects of the sea are not different from the sea; nor is there any difference between the universe and its supreme principle.
Chhandogya Upanishad
In truth there is no difference between the word of God and the world.
Bahaullah
Heaven and Earth are only a talisman which conceals the Deity; without It they are but a vain name. Know then that the visible world and the invisible are God Himself. There is only He and all that is, is he.
Fariduddin Attar
He is all things and all things are one.
Zohar
All reflects Him in his shining and by his light all this is luminous.
Kathopanishad
As the principle of Fire is one, but having entered this world assumes shapes that correspond to each different form, so the one Self in all existences assumes shapes that correspond to each form of things.
Kathopanishad
He has a form and He is as if He had no form. He has taken a form in order to be the essence of all.
Zohar
God in All Beings
The Being whom I declare, is no isolated existence. The whole word is his Being.
Fariduddin Attar
The one God hidden in all beings who pervades all things and is the inner self of all creatures, who presides over all actions and dwells in all existences.
Shwetaswatara Upanishad
He who abiding in the mind is inward to mind, whom the mind knows not, of whom mind is the body, who within governs the mind, He is thy self and inward guide and immortal.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Without being divided in creatures It dwells in them as if divided.
Bhagavad Gita
He sees rightly who beholds the supreme Lord dwelling equally in all existences and not perishing when they perish.
Bhagavad Gita
Things in their fundamental nature are subject neither to transformation nor to destruction. They are all one single soul.
Ashwaghosha
And these bodies that end are of an eternal soul, indestructible and immeasurable, unborn, everlasting, ancient, all pervading, stable, immobile, not manifest, beyond thought, immutable—as such it should be known.
Bhagwad Gita
Since it is without beginnig or quality, this supreme self, imperishable though residing in the body, … is situated everywhere and remains in the body untouched and unstained.
Bhagvad Gita
He is the intelligence in every living creature.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
God is everywhere
I am the self who abides in the heart of all beings.
Bhagwad Gita
I am the begimning , the middle and the end of all existences.
Bhagwad Gita
He who is here in man and He who is there in the sun, is the same.
Taittiriya Upanishad
The Lord who is established in the secret place of every soul, pervades the whole universe.
Shwetashwatara Upanishad
He is the light of all lights that is beyond the darkness; He is the knowledge and the object of knowledge and its goal and dwells in the heart of all.
Bhagvad Gita
The Lord dwells in the heart of all beings and He turns all of them as upon a machine by His Maya.
Bhagvad Gita
This is that truth and immortality in which all the worlds and their creatures are established; this know for the supreme aim.
Mundaka Upanishad
In all hearts dwells the shining one, so have the sages declared.
Guru Granth Sahib
The light that shines most high of all, higher than every other thing, in the highest world beyond which there is no other, is the same light that is in man.
Chhandogya Upanishad
The soul of every man contains God in potentiality.
Vivekananda
He is called the supreme self in this body and the Supreme Soul.
Bhagvad Gita
The soul and self within established in the heart of man.
Shwetashwatara Upanishad
You are yourselves He whom you seek.
Vivekananda
He is Thyself
Why should man go about seeking God? He is in thy heart-beats and thou knowest it not; thou in error in seeking Him outside thyself.
Vivekananda
He who finds not the Eternal in himself, will never find it outside; but he who sees Him in the temple of his own soul, sees him also in the temple of the universe.
Ramakrishna
Thou are not, but only he.
Mohiuddin ibn Arabi
This supreme Brahman, the self of all, the great abode of the universe, more subtle than the subtle, eternal, That is thyself and thou art that.
Kaivalya Upanishad
Thou art that…not a part, not a mode of It, but identically that, the absolute spirit.
Chhandogya Upanishad
All the attributes of Allah are thy attributes.
Mohiuddin ibn Arabi
Man ought always to say in his thought, I am God himself.
Upanishad
God is my inmost self, the reality of my being.
Vivekananda
The Purushad who is there and there, he am I.
Isha Upanishad
They regarded the divine Being and grew assured that it was no other than themselves… that they were themselves that Being…that they and that being made but one.
Fariduddin Attar
He be Adored
So should he be adored…for it is in that all become one.
Brihadaranyanka Upanishad
Hail to thee, to thee, spirit of the supreme Spirit, Soul of souls, to thee, the visible and invisible, who art one with Time and with the elements.
Vishnu Purana
O obscurity of obscurity, O soul of the soul, Thou art more than all and before all. All is seen in Thee and Thou art seen in all.
Farid uddin Attar
I see of Thee neither end nor middle nor beginning, O Lord of all and universal form.
Bhagvad Gita
First of the elements, universal Being, Thou hast created all and preservest all and the universe is nothing but thy form.
Vishnu Purana
Sole essence of the world, Thou createst it and thou dissolvest it. Thou makest and unmakest the universe which is born again unceasingly by thee.
Harivansha
When creation perishes, thou does not perish, when it is reborn, thou coverse it, O imperishable, with a thousand different forms.
Harivansha
Thou art the sun, the stars, the planets, the entire world, all that is without form or endowed with form, all that is visible or invisible, thou art all these.
Vishnu Purana
Thou art also in the trees and the plants; the earth bears Thee in its flanks and gives birth to Thee as its nursling, Thee, the Lord of beings, Thee, the essence of all that exists.
Harivansha
Thou who art the soul of all things, Thy universal diffusion witnesses to Thy power and goodness. It is in thee, in others, in all creatures, in all worlds.
Vishnu Purana
Master invisible, filling all hearts and directing them from within, to whatever side I look, Thou dwellest there.
Bharon Guru
Thou art the sovereign treasure of this universe.
Bhagvad Gita
When God know us
Lose thyself in Him to penetrate this mystery; everything else is superfluous.
Fariduddin Attar
Whoever thinks himself and imperfect and wordly soul, is really and imperfect and worldly soul; whoever deems himself divine, becomes divine. What a man thinks he is, he becomes.
Ramakrishna
That is why it is permitted to him who has attained to the truth within to say,”I am the true Divine.”
Mohiuddin ibn Arabi
Each man ought to say to himself,”I was the creator, may I become again what I was.”
Upanishad
Gods
He who knows that he is the supreme Lord, becomes that, and the gods themselves cannot prevent him… He who adores any other divinity, has not the knowledge, He is as cattle for the gods. Even as numerous cattle serve to nourish men, so each man serves to nourish the gods…. That is why the gods love not that a man should know that.
Brihadaranaka Upanishad
The belief in supernatural beings may to a certain extent increase the acton in man, but it produces also a moral deterioration. Dependence, fear, superstition accompany it; it degenerates into a miserable belief in the weakness of man.
Vivekananda
The ancestors fashioned the gods as a workman fashions iron.
Rig-veda
All the gods and goddesses are only varied aspects of the One.
Ramakrishna
The gods have been created by Him, but of him who knows the manner of his being?
Rigveda
We should not make comparisons between the gods. When a man has really seen a divinity, he knows that all divinities are manifestaions of one and the same Brahman.
Ramakrishna
That is worlds, gods, beings, the All—the supreme soul.
Brihadaranyanka Upanishad
Divine Man
None is greter than he. The gods themselves will have to descend upon earth and it is in a human form that they will get their salvation. Man alone raeches the perfection of which the gods themselves are ignorant.
Vivekananda
By the assmeblage of all that is exalted and all that is base man was always the most astonishing of mysteries.
Fariduddin Attar
It is we who, in the eyes of Intelligence, are the essence of the divine regard.
Omar Khayyam
Man is divine so long as he is in communion with the Eternal.
Ramakrishna
Thou belongest to the divine world.
Bahaullah
Aspiration towards Truth
When darkness envelops you, do you not seek for a lamp?
Dhammapada
One beholds it as a mystery, another speaks of it as a mystery, another learns of it as a mystery and even when one has learned of it, there is none that knows it.
Bhagvad Gita
The supreme gift is the gift of Truth, the supreme savour is the savour of Truth, The supreme delight is the delight of Truth.
Dhammapada
Awake, arise, strive incessantly towards the knowledge so that thou mayst attain unto the peace.
Buddhist Text
True royalty consists in spiritual knowledge; turn thy efforts to its attainment.
Fariduddin Attar
To the eyes of men athirst the whole world seems in dream as a spring of water.
Saadi
O children of immortality, you who live on the highest summits, the road is found, there is a way to escape out of the shadow; and this means, the soul for there are no others is to perceive him who is beyond all darkness.
Vivekananda
Heaven is my father and begot me; I have for my family all this heavenly circle. My mother is the boundless earth. But I know not to what all this mysterious universe is like, my eyes are troubled and I move as if enchained in my own thought.
Rigveda
I invoke the excellent people of the stars of pure knowledge, pure greatness and beneficent light.
Zend-Avesta
I desire and love nothing that is not of the light Zend-Avesta
To my eyes the majesty of lords and princes is only a little smoke that floats in a ray of sunlight.
Sutra in Forty-two Articles
O thou who hast hidden thyself behind a veil, withdraw that veil at last, so that my soul may not consume itself in the search for Thee.
Friduddin Attar
In that God who illumines the reason, desiring liberation I seek my refuge.
Shwetashwatara Upanishad
Verily, I say to thee; he who seeks the Eternal, finds him.
Ramakrishna
He who seeks him, finds him; he who yearns intensely after the Ineffable, has found the Ineffable.
Ramakrishna
Wide open to all beings be the gates of the everlasting.
Mahavagga
Quest in Side
Retire into thyself as into an island and set thyself to the work.
Dammapada
Gather thyself into thyself crouched like an infant in the bosom of its mother.
Fariduddin Attar
Contemplate the mirror of thy heart and thou shalt taste little by little a pure joy and unmixed peace.
Saadi
Open the eye of the heart that thou mayst see thy soul; thou shalt see what was not made to be seen.
Ahmed Halif
The soul is veiled by the body; God is veiled by the soul.
Fariduddin Attar
Look into thy heart and thou shalt see there his image.
Fariduddin Attar
O my friend, hearken to the melody of the spirit in thy heart and in the soul and guard it as the apple of thy eyes.
Bahaullah
This self hidden in all existences shines not out, but it is seen with the supreme and subtle vision by those who see the subtle. The wise man should draw speech into the mind, mind into the self that is knowledge; knowledge he should contain in the Great self and that in the self that is still.
Kathopanishad
What right has a man to say he has a soul if he has not felt it or that there is a God if he has not seen him? If we have a soul, we must penetrate to it; otherwise it is better not to believe, to be frankly an atheist rather than a hypocrite.
Vivekananda
To Know Thyself
This mental being in the inner heart who has the truth and the light is the lord and sovereign of all; he who knows it, governs all this that is.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
As by knowing one piece of clay one knows all that is of clay, as by knowing one implement of steel one knows all that is of steel, even so is the order of this knowledge.
Chhandogya Upanishad
He who knows himself, knows his Lord.
Mohiuddin ibn Arabi
Know thyself and thou shalt know the Non know ego and the Lord of all. Meditate deeply, thou shalt find there is nothing of all analysis is the eternal divine. When egoism vanishes, divinity manifests itself.
Ramakrishna
When thou takest cognizance of what thine ‘I’ is, then art thou delivered from egoism and shalt know that thou art not other than God.
Mohiudiin ibn Arabi
Who knows this ruler within, he knows the worlds and the gods and creatures and the self, he knows all.
Brihadaranyanka Upanishad
That is the bright light of all lights which they know who know themselves.
Mundaka Upanishad
He becomes master of all this universe who has this knowledge.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Paths of Understanding
You tell me that even in Europe educated men become mad by thinking constantly of one subect. But how is it possible to lose one’s intelligence and become mad by thinking of that Intelligence by which the whole world is made intelligent?
Ramakrishna
Force cannot resist intelligence; inspite of force, inspite of men, intetlligence passes on and triumphs.
Ramakrishna
There is nothing in the world that man’s intelligence cannot attain, annihilate or accomplish.
Hindu Saying
It is nothing, O my brothers, the loss of relatives, riches of honours; but the loss of understanding is a heavy loss. It is nothing, O my brothers, the gain of relatives, riches or honours; but the gain of understading is the supreme gain. Therefore we wish to gain in understading; let that be our aspiration.
Anguttara Nikaya
Cultivate the intelligence so that you may drink of the torrent of certitude.
Bahaullah
Strive to understand with that supreme intuition which will cause you to attain to divine knowledge and which is in harmony with the soul of eternal things, so that the mysteries of spiritual wisdom may be clearly revealed to you.
Bahaullah
Spirit of Synthesis
If faith and incredulity offered themselves together to him, he would receive them with an equal willingness, let them but open to him the door through which he must pass to his goal.
Fariduddin Attar
Accept what is good even from the babbling of an idiot or the prattle of a child as they extract gold from a stone.
Mahabharata
Seek the truth, though you must go to China to find it.
Mohammed
Behind each particular idea there is a general idea, an absolute principle. Know that and you know all.
Vivekananda
Purification of the Mind
There is a stain worse than all stains, the stain of ignorance. Purify yourselves of that stain, O disciples, and be free from soil.
Dhammapada
Men and women live in the world without yet having any idea either of the visible world or the invisible.
Fariduddin Attar
Man is like an ignorant spectator of a drama played on the stage.
Bhagvata Purana
Ignorance is the field in which all other difficulties grow.
Patanjali
With ignorance are born all the passions, with the destruction of ignorance the passions also are destroyed.
Majjhima Nikaya
There is in this world no purification like knowledge.
Bhagavad Gita
Even though thou shouldst be of all sinners the most sinful, yet by the raft of knowledge thou shalt cross utterly beyond all evil.
Bhagvad Gita
There is a ceremony which is called the baptism of the purification. It is celebrated with solemnity and pomp, but it is not the true purification. I will teach you that noble baptism which leads to deliverance.
Samyutta Nikaya
It is not by the water in which they plunge that men become pure but he becomes pure who follows the path of the truth.
Samyutta Nikaya
True Science
The knowledge which purifies the intelligence is true knowledge. All the rest is ignorance.
Ramakrishna
He alone is truly a man who is illumined by the light of the true knowledge. Others are only men in name.
Ramakrishna
Whoever has perfected himself by the spiritual union, finds in time the true science in himself.
Bhagvad Gita
Just discernment is of two kinds. The first conducts us towards the phenomenon, while the second knows how the Absolute appears in the universe.
Ramakrishna
The observations and reckonings of astronomers have taught us many surprising things, but the most important result of their studies is, undoubtedly, that they reveal to us the abyss of our ignorance.
Kant
If a man does not read with an intense desire to know the truth renouncing for its sake all that is vain and frivolous and even that which is essential if needs be, mere reading will only inspire him with pedantry, presumption and egoism.
Ramakrishna
Having studied books, the sage uniquely consecrated to knowledge and wisdom, should leave books completely aside as a man who wants the rice abandons the husk.
Amritabindu Upanishad
One arrives at such a condition only by renouncing all that one has seen, heard, understood.
Bahaullah
So long as one has not become as simple as a child, one cannot expect the divine illumination. Forget all the knowledge of the world that you have acquired and become as ignorant as a child; then you shall attain to the divine wisdom.
Ramakrishna
The seeker who would travel in the paths of the teaching of the king of the Ancients, should purify his heart of the dark dust of human science…for it is in his heart that the divine and invisible mysteries appear transfigured.
Bahaullah
Learn then, in brief, matter and its nature qualities and modifications and also what the spirit is and what its power.
Bhagavad Gita
The true royalty is spiritual knowledge; put forth they efforts to attain it.
Fariduddin Attar
The knowledge of the soul is the highest knowledge and truth has nothing for us beyond it.
Mahabharata
When thou possessest knowledge, thou shalt attain soon to peace.
Bhagavad Gita
For those in whom self-knowledge has destroyed their ignorance, knowledge illumines sun-like that highest existence.
Bhagavad Gita
Way of Love
Some say that knowledge is the road that leads towards love; others, that love and knowledge are interdependent.
Narada Sutra
Love is an easier method than the others; because it is self-evident and does not depend on other truths and its nature is peace and supremefelicity.
Narada Sutra
Love is greater than knowledge…because it is its own end.
Narada Sutra
The knowledge of the eternal and the love of the eternal are in the end one and the same thing. There is no difference between pure knowledge and pure love.
Ramakrishna
Knowledge of God can be compared to a man while love of God is like a woman. The one has his right of entry to the outer chambers of the Eternal, but only love can penetrate into the inner chambers, she who has access to the mysteries of the Almighty.
Ramakrishna
He who goes from this world without knowing that imperishable is poor in soul, but he who goes from this world having known that imperishable, he is the sage.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Practise with all the strength, love for that being who is the one, in order that it may be made manifest to thy sight that he is one and alone and there is no other God than he.
Ahmed Halif
Still it is not impossible to raise oneself even higher than that, for love itself is a veil between the lover and the beloved.
Bahaullah
Goodness of the Sage
The company of saints and sages is one of the chief agents of spiritual progress.
Ramakrishna
To avoid the company of fools, to be in communion with the sages, to render honour to that which merits honour, is a great blessedness.
Mahaparinibbana Sutta
To avoid the company of fools, to take pleasure in being among the intelligent, to venerate those who are worthy of veneration, is a great blessedness.
Mahamangla Sutta
Take the pearl and throw from you the shell; take the instruction which is given you by your Master and put out of your view the human weakness of the teacher.
Ramakrishna
Alone the sage can recognise the sage.
Ramakrishna
Whosoever can cry to the All-Powerful with sincerity and an intense passion of the soul has no need of a Master, but so profound an aspiration is very rare; hence the necessity of a Master.
Ramakrishna
Seek for a guide to lead you to the gates of knowledge where shines the brilliant light that is pure of all darkness.
Dhammapada
All that man does comes to its perfection in knowledge. That do thou learn by prostration to the wise and by questioning and by serving them; they who have the knowledge and see the truths of things shall instruct thee in the knowledge.
Bhagvad Gita
Avoid the society of evil friends and men of vulgar minds; have pleasure in that of the giants of wisdom and take as thy friends those who practise justice.
Dhammapada
If thou meetest on the roads of life an intelligent friend who is following thy path, one full of justice, firmness and wisdom. Then overcome all walk at his side happy and attentive.
Dhammapada
Follow wise and intelligent men possessed of experience, patient and full of spirituality and elevation. Follow just and perfect men faithfully as the moon follows the path of the constellations.
Dhammapada
Do not listen if one criticises or blames thy Master, leave his presence that very moment.
Ramakrishna
Hearken to the word of the sage with the ear of the soul, even when his conduct has no similitude to his teachings. Men should listen to good counsel even though it be written on a wall.
Saadi
Though my Master should visit the tavern, yet my master shall always be a saint. Though my master should frequent the impious meeting-place of the drunkards and the sinners, yet shall he be always to me my pure and perfect Master.
Ramakrishna
Eternal Torch
Be your own torch and your own refuge. Take truth for your force, take truth for your refuge. Seek refuge in no others but only in yourself.
Mkaparinibbana Sutta
Who can be the Master of another? The eternal alone is the guide and the Master.
Ramakrishna
It is you who must make the effort; the sages can only teach.
Dhammapada
If you do not meet a sage following the same road as yourself, then walk alone.
Dhammapada
Stimulate thyself, direct thyself; thus protected by thyself and full of clear-seeing thou shalt live always happy.
Dhammapada
Shine out for thyself as thy own light.
Dhammapada
Eternal Liberty
To believe blindly is bad. Reason, judge for yourselves, experiment, verify what you have been told is true of false.
Vivekananda
Use your body and you thought and turn away from anybody who asks you to believe blindly, whatever be his good will or his virtue.
Vivekananda
Be then on your guard against everything that suppresses your liberty.
Vivekananda
Attentive in the midst of the heedless, awake amidst sleepers, the intelligent man walks on leaving the others as far behind him as a courser distances beasts of burden.
Dhammapada
Moral Liberty
It is better to follow one’s own law even though imperfect than the better law of another.
Bhagavad Gita
It is better to be good and to be called wicked by men than to be wicked esteemed good.
Saadi
Only one who has surmounted by wisdom that which the world calls good and evil and who lives in a clear light, can be truly called an ascetic.
Dhammapada
They will renounce even the treading in the tracks of their fathers and ancestors. They will shut the doors of friendship and hatred on all the dwellers in the world.
Bahaullah
To Know the Eternal Things
The disciple should think that all things in this world are subject to a constant transformation, that all things in the past are like a dream, that all in the present are like a flash of lightning, and all in the future like images that arrive spontaneously into existence.
Ashwaghosha
The contemplation of impermanence is a door which leads to liberation and dissolves the formations of Illusion.
Abhidhammattha Sangaha
All aggregations are transient, all aggregations are subject to sorrow, all aggregations are without any substantial reality; when one is entirely penetrated with this fact, one is delivered from sorrow. This is the way of purification.
Dhammapada
Unreal Ego
Life is a journey in the darkness of the night.
Panchatantra
The world is but a dream that passes and neither happiness nor sorrow are enduring.
Firdausi
And in this world, always a work of Illusion, men whose intelligence is troubled by desire, greed, envy and error, are rolled through different states with the idea that these states are real.
Bhagavata Purana
Everything is but a shadow cast by the mind.
Ashwaghosha
All things, simply by reason of our confused subjectivity, appear in the forms of individualisation. If we could raise ourselves above our confused subjectivity, the signs of individuality would disappear and there would be no trace of a world of objects.
Ashwaghosha
We can thus recognise that all phenomena of the world are only the illusory manifestations of the mind and have no reality proper to themselves.
Ashwaghosha
Thus space exists only in relation to our particularising consciousness.
Ashwaghosha
Space is only a mode of particularisation and has no real self-existence.
Ashwaghosha
All the modes of relative existence of our phenomenal world are simply created by particularisation in the troubled mind.
Ashwaghosha
Although all things in their metaphysical origin proceed from the soul one and truly free from all particularisation, nevertheless by reason of non-illumination there is produced a subjective mind which beocmes conscious of an external world.
Ashwaghosha
It is on the blindness of ignorance that is founded the working which affirms the ego.
Samyutta Nikaya
It is thus that by the study of principles is produced this science which consits in saying, ‘‘I am not that; this is not mine; this is not myself—’’a science definitive, pure from all kind of doubt, a science absolute and unique.
Samkhya Karika
The body is the name of a succession of changes; it is with the body as with a river in which you see the same form, but the waves change every moment and other new waves take the place of those that preceded them.
Vivekananda
Regard incessantly this body as the bespangled chariot of a king; it gladdens the simpleton but not the wise, dazzles the fool but not the sage.
Udanavagga
Illusion of the World
Men insensate enter into the world seduced by a false brilliance. But just as it is easier to enter into a net than to come out of it, so is it easier to enter into the world than to renounce it when once one has entered in.
Ramakrishana
That man whose mind is solely attached to the objects of sense, him death drags with it as an impetuous torrent sweeps away a slumbering village.
Dhammapada
The foolish follow after outward desires and they enter into the snare of death that is wide extended for them; but the wise, having found immortality, know that which is sure and desire not here uncertain things.
Kathopanishad
He whose senses are not attached to name and form, who is no longer troubled by transient things, can be really called a disciple.
Dhammapada
He who discerns the truth as truth and the illusion as an illusion, attains to the truth and is walking is the right road.
Dhammpada
As clouds cover the sun, so the Illusion hides the Divinity. When the clouds recede, the sun becomes visible; even so when the Illusion is dissipated, the Eternal can be seen.
Ramakrishna
You veil your eyes and complain that you cannot see the Eternal. If you wish to see him, tear from your eyes the veil of the illusion.
Ramakrishna
So and likewise, if you tear away the veils of the heart, the light of the oneness will shine upon it.
Bahaullah
The world is a brilliant flame in which every moment a new creature comes to burn itself. Bravely turn thy eyes form it like the lion, if thou wouldst not burn thyself in it like the butterfly. The insensate who like that insect adores the flame, will surely be burned in it.
Fariduddin Attar
He alone traverse the current of the illusion who comes face to face with the Eternal and realises it.
Ramakrishna
Look Deep, Think Deep
Attach thyself to the sense of things and not to their form. The sense is the essential, the form is only an encumbrance.
Fariduddin Attar
Empty for the fool are all the points of space.
Hindu Saying
So long as the mind stops at the observation of multiple details, it does not enter into the general field of true knowledge.
Patanjali
When the mind has been trained on a object, it transforms itself to the image of that which it scrutinises and enters into the full comprehension of what is finds there in contained.
Patanjali
In each thing there is a door to knowledge and in each atom is seen the trace of the sun.
Bahaullah
In the interior of each atom that thou shalt cleave, thou shalt find imprisoned a sun.
Ahmed Halif
In each atom thou shalt see the all, thou shalt comtemplate millions of secrects as luminous as the sun.
Fariduddin Attar
When one discovers the enigma of a single atom, one can see the mystery of all creation, that within us as well as that without.
Mohiuddin ibn Arabi
In this immense ocean the world is an atom and the atom a world.
Fariduddin Attar
There is a supreme state unmanifest beyond this nature and eternal which perishes not when all creatures perish; it is unmanifest and immutable and the supreme goal.
Bhagavad Gita
Three worlds—the world of desire, the world of form and the world of the formless.
Samyutta Nikaya
Yes, my brother, if we think of each world, we shall find there a hundred thousand wonderful sciences. One of these worlds is sleep. What problems it contains! What wisdom is there concealed! How many worlds it includes!
Bahaullah
Master Mind
The self is master of the self; what other master can it have? The sage who has made himself master of himself, rends his bonds and breaks his chains.
Udanavagga
The self is master of itself, what other master can it have? A self well-controlled is a master difficult to procure.
Dhammapada
To be master of one’s mind! How difficult that is! It has been compared, not without reason, to a mad monkey.
Vivekananda
The mind is restless, violent, powerful, obstinate; its control seems to me as difficult a task as to control the wind.
Bhagavad Gita
Just as the fly settles now on an unclean sore and now on the sweetmeats offered to the gods, so a worldly man’s thoughts stop for a moment on religious subjects and the next stray into the pleasures of luxury and lust.
Ramakrishna
So long as the mentality is inconstant and inconsequent, it is worthless, though one have a good teacher and the company of holy men.
Ramakrishna
On his mind vacillating, mobile, difficult to hold in, difficult to master, the intelligent man should impose the same straightness as an arrowmaker gives to an arrow.
Dhammapada
The wise man should rein in intently this mental action like a chariot drawn by untrained horses.
Shwetashwatara Upanishad
A half-attention prepares the way for fresh errors, fresh illusions and allows the old to increase. Prevent by a sustained attention the birth of new errors and destroy the old.
Majjhima Nikaya
Under all circumstances be vigilant.
Bahaullah
A bad thought is the most dangerous of thieves.
Buddhist Scriptures
Let not worldly thoughts and anxieties trouble your minds.
Ramakrishna
By dominating the senses one increases the intelligence.
Mahabharata
The mind is a clear and polished mirror and our continual duty is to keep it pure and never allow dust to accumulate upon it.
Hindu Saying
When a mirror is covered with dust it cannot reflect images; it can only do so when it is clear of stain. So is it with beings. If their minds are not pure of soil, the Absolute cannot reveal itself in them. But if they free themselves from soil, then of itself it will be revealed.
Ashwaghosha
Even as the troubled surface of rolling waters cannot properly reflect the full moon, but only gives broken images of it, so a mind troubled by the desires and passions of the world cannot fully reflect the light of the Ineffable.
Ramakrihna
The eternal is seen when the mind is at rest. When the sea of the mind is troubled by the winds of desire, it cannot reflect the eternal and all divine vision is impossible.
Ramakrishna
Concentration
The power of the human intelligence is without bounds; it increases by concentration: that is the secret.
Vivekananda
The force of attention properly guided and directed towards the inner life allows us to analyse our soul and will shed light on main things. The forces of the mind resemble scattered rays; concentrate them and they illumine everything. That is the sole source of knowledge we possess; to conquer this knowledge there is only one method— concentration.
Vivekananda
Just as the penetrating rays of the sun visit the darkest corners, so thought concentrated will master its own deepest secrets.
Vivekananda
Once the mind has been trained to fix itself on formed images, it can easily accustom itself to fix on formless realities.
Ramakrishna
So we should acquire the power of concentration by fixing the mind first on forms and when we have obtained in this a full success, we can easily fix it on the formless.
Ramakrishna
The powers developed are liable to become obstacles to a perfect concentration by reason of the possibility of wonder and admiration which results from their exercise.
Patanjali
The obstacles met by the seeker after concentration are illness, langour, doubt, negligence, idleness, the domination of the senses, false perception, impotence to attain and instability in a state of meditation once attained.
Patanjali
Such difficulties are root and product of both physical and mental workings; they produce their fruits alike in the visible and invisible.
Patanjali
When we render natural and easy to us perfect concentration (or the operatiion which consists is fixing attention, contemplation and meditation), a power of exact discernment develops.
Patanjali
After long practice one who is master of himself can dispense with diverse aids to concentration…and he will be able to make himself master of any result what so ever simply by desiring it.
Patanjli
When by a constant practice a man is capable of effecting mental concentration, then wherever he may be, his mind will always lift itself above his surroundings and will repose in the Eternal.
Ramakrishna
The greater his aspiration and concentration, the more he finds the eternal.
Ramakrishna
Contemplation
Without contemplation there is no tranquillity and without tranquillity how shall there be happiness? The mind that orders itself according to the motions of the senses, carries away the intelligence as the wind carries away a ship on the sea. Therefore only he whose senses are drawn back from the objects of sense, has a firmly seated wisdom.
Bhagavad Gita
Let him destroy by deep meditaion the qualities that are opposes to the divine nature.
Manu Smriti
As in a house with a sound roof the rain cannot penetrate, so in a mind where meditation dwells passion cannot enter.
Dhammapada
One who during his contemplation is entirely inconscient of all external things to such a point that if birds made a nest in his hair he would not know it, has acquired the perfection of meditation.
Ramakrishna
He will go from doubt to certitude, from the night of error to the light of the guidance; he will see with the eye of knowledge and begin to converse in secret with the well-beloved.
Bahaullah
“To him who is perfect in meditation salvation is near” is an old saying. Do you know when a man is perfect in meditation? When as soon as he sits to meditate, he is surrounded with the divine atmosphere and his soul communes with the Ineffable.
Ramakrishna
Meditate on the eternal either in an unknown look or in the solitude of the forests or in the solitude of thy own mind.
Ramakrishna
His form stands not with in the vision of any, none seeth Him with the eye, By the heart and the thought and the mind he is experienced; who seize this with the knowledge, they become immortal.
Kathopanishad
He is not seized by the eye, nor by the speech, nor by the other gods, nor by the austerity of force, nor by action; when a man’s being has been purified by a calm clarity of knowledge, he meditating beholds that which has not parts nor members.
Mundaka Upanishad
One who has not ceased from evil living or is without peace or without concentration or whose mind has not been tranquillised, cannot attain to him by the intelligence.
Katha upanishad
This self can always be won by truth and austerity, by purity and by entire knowledge
Mundaka Upanishad
When thy understanding shall stand immovable and unshakable in concentration, then thou shalt attain to the divine Union.
Bhagavad Gita
Silence
For the ignorant there is no better route than silence and if he knew its advantage he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
The seeker ought to avoid any preference of himself to another; he should efface pride and arrogance from his heart, arm himself with patience and endurance and follow the law of silence so that he may keep himself form vaiin words.
Bahaullah
My brothers, when you accost each other, two thins alone are fitting, instructive words or a grave silence.
Buddhist Scripture
So long as a man cries aloud, O Allah, O Allah, be sure he has not yet found his Allah; for whoever has found him becomes calm and full of peace.
Ramakrishna
When Practise
If you live one sixth of what is taught you, you will surely attain the goal.
Ramakrishna
Since the important thing is to practise, it is in vain that one is near the master if one does not prectise oneself; no profit of any kind comes out of it.
Sutra in Forty-two Articles
The mind may be compared to a precious stone which is pure and brilliant in itself but hidden in a coarse coating of foulness. There is no reason to suppose that anyone will be able to clean and purify it simply by gazing at it without any process of cleansing.
Ashwaghosha
Better are those who read than those who have studied little; preferable those who possess what they have read to those who have read and forgotten; more meritorious those who understand than those who know by heart; those to be more highly valued who do their duty than those who merely know it.
Laws of Manu
Hindu almanacs contain predictions about the annual rains foretelling how many centimetres of rain will fall in the country; but by pressing the book which is so full of predictions of rain, you will extract not a drop of water. So also many good words are to be found in pious books, but the mere reading of them does not give spirituality.
Ramakrishna
There are two persons who have given themselves useless trouble and made efforts without profit. One is he who has amassed wealth and has spent it and the other is he who has acquired knowledge and has made no use of it.
Saadi
The man of knowledge without a good heart is like the bee without honey.
Saadi
The knowledge one does not practise is a poison.
Hitopadesha
All good thoughts, good words, good actions are works of intelligence; all bad thoughts, bad works, bad actions are words of unintelligence.
Zend-Avesta
Apply thyself to think what is good, speak what is good, do what is good.
Zend-Avesta
Act as you speak.
Lalita Vistara
As the perfect man speaks so he acts; as he acts, so the perfect man speaks. It is because he speaks as he acts and acts as he speaks that he is called the perfect.
Buddhist Scripture
Ordinary men pronounce a sackful of discourses on religion, but do not put a grain into practice, while the sage speaks little, but his whole life is religion put into action.
Ramakrishna
Fine language not followed by acts in harmony with it is like a splendid flower brilliant in colour but without perfume.
Dhammapada
Gold is tested by the fire, the good man by his acts, heroes by perils, the prudent man by difficult circumstances, friends and enemies by great needs.
Mahabharata
Spiritual Religion
Why do you amass stones and construct great temples?
Why do yo vex youselves thus when God dewells with in you?
Vemana
The church does not consist in a great number of persons. He who possesses the truth at his side is the Church, though he be alone.
Ibn Masud
It is useless to grow pale over the holy scriptures and the sacred shastras without a spirit of discrimination exempt from all passions. No spiritual progress can be made without discrimination and renunciation.
Ramakrishna
Visit not the doers of miracles. They have wandered from the path of the truth; they have allowed their minds to be caught in the snare of psychical powers which are so many temptations on the path of the pilgrims to the Brahman. Beware of such powers and do no desire them.
Ramakrishna
He whose heart longs after the Deity, has no time for anything else.
Ramakrishna
He is a stranger to the magical arts and divination and necromancy, to exorcisms and other analogous practices. He takes no part in the accomplishment of any prayer or religious ceremony.
Digha Nikaya
He whose thought is always fixed on the Eternal has no need of any devotional practice or spiritual exercise.
Ramakrishna
After having abandoned every kind of pious practice, directing his mind towards the sole object of his thoughts, the contemplation of the divine Being, free from all desire…he attains the supreme goal.
Manu Smriti
What is Love
True worship does not consist in offering incense, flowers and other material objects, but in striving to follow the same path as the object of our veneration.
Jatakamala
Not superstitious rites but self-control allied to benevolence and beneficence towards all beings are in truth the rites one should accomplish in all places.
Ashoka
Speak the truth, do not abandon yourself to wrath, give of the little you have to those who seek your aid. By these three steps you shall approach the God.
Dhammapada
It is much better to observe justice than to pass one’s whole life in the prostrations and genuflexions of an external worship.
Fariduddin Attar
A hundred years of life passed without the vision of the supreme law are not worth a single day of a life consecrated to that vision.
Dhammapada
In what does religion consist? It consists in causing as little suffering as possible and in doing good in abundance. It consists in the practice of love, of compassion, of truth, of purity in all domains of life.
Ashoka
There is the truth where love and righteousness are.
Buddhist Text
Compassion and love, behold the true religion!
Ashoka
Love towards all beings is the true religion.
Jatakamala
Renounce without hesitaion faith and unbelief.
Fariduddin Attar
Whoever has his footing firm in love, renounces at once and the same time both religion and unbelief.
Fariduddin Attar
Light the fire of divine love and destroy all creed and all cult.
Bahaullah
Believe in the fundamental truth; it is to meditate with rapture on the Everlasting.
Ashwaghosha
Man of Religion
It is not by shaving the head that one becomes a man of religion; truth and rectitude alone make the true religious man.
Dhammapada
Thou shalt see in that spot the mendicant stripped of all resources but with his head troubled by a desire for the possession of the world.
Ahmed Halif
A gay liver who spreads gladness around him, is better than the devotee who fasts all the year round. Fasting is a merit in the man who distributes his good to the needy; otherwise what mortification is it to take in the evening a meal you have abstained from during the day?
Saadi
The man whose soul aspires to the Eternal cannot give thought to such silly questions as that of daivic food, that is to say, a simple vegetarian diet, and for him who does not desire to attain to the eternal, beef is as good as diavic food.
Ramakrishna
It is not eating meat that makes a man impure; it is anger, intemperance, egoism, hypocrisy, disloyalty, envy, ostentation, vanity, pride; it is to take pleasure in the society of those who perpetrate injustice.
Amaghanda Sutta
The man who does not control himself in his conduct with living beings and who directs all his thoughts towards humiliating them after despoiling them of their goods, he who is wicked, cruel, violent, without respect, to him and not to the meat-eater should be applied the stigma of impurity.
Amaghands Sutta
They who torture living beings and feel no compassion towards them, regard as impure.
Amaghanda Sutta
He whose mind is utterly pure from all evil as the sun is pure of stain and the moon of soil, him indeed I call a man of religion.
Udanavagga
He who practises wisdom without anger of covetousness, who fulfils with fidelity his vows and lives master of himself, he is indeed a man of religion.
Buddhist Text
He who watches over his body, his speech his whole self, who is full of serenity and joy, possesses a spirit unified and finds satisfaction in solitude, he is indeed a man of religion.
Buddhist Text
He who has perfectly mastered himself in thought and speech and act, he is indeed a man of religion.
Buddhist Text
He who puts away from him all passion, hatred, pride and hypocrisy, who pronounces words instructive and benevolent, who does not make his own what has not been given to him, who without desire, covetousness, impatience, knows the depths of the permanent, he is indeed a man of religion.
Buddhist Text
He who afflicts no living creature, who neither kills nor allow to be killed, him indeed I call a man of religion. Whoever wishes to consecrate himself to the spiritual life, ought not to destroy any life.
Buddhist Text
He who punishes not, kills not, permits not to be killed, who is full of love among those who are full of hate, full of sweetness among those who are full of cruelty, he is indeed a man of religion.
Buddhist Text
He who has conquered the desire of the present life and of the future life, who has vanquished all fear and broken all chains, he is indeed a man of religion.
Buddhist Text
What is Body
Thinkest thou that thy body is nothing when in thee is contained the most perfect world?
Bahaullah
The human body is the most perfect in the world as the human creature is the most perfect of creatures.
Vivekananda
The spirit and the form; sentiment within and symbol without.
Ramakrishna
The body is not distinct from the soul but makes of it part and the soul is not distinct from the whole but one of its members.
Fariduddin Attar
The virtuous cannot but take care for their body, the temple of the soul in which the Eternal manifests himself or which has been consecrated by his coming.
Ramakrishna
It is important to preserve the body’s strength and health, for it is our best instrument. Take care that it is strong and healthy, you possesss no better instrument. Imagine that it is a strong as steel and that thanks to it you travel over this ocean of life. The weak will never attain to liberation; put off all weakness, tell your body that it is robust, your intelligence that it is strong, have in yourself a boundless faith and hope.
Vivekananda
Soberness
Let us watch at the gates of our senses. Let us be moderate in all that regards our nourishment; let us vow ourselves to vigilance and be armed with an intelligence that no fumes have veiled.
Majjhima Nikaya
Sober Speech
For the tongue is a smouldering fire and abuse of speech a mortal poison; and while natural fire consumes bodies, the tongue consumes minds and hearts.
Bahaullah
Rein the tongue, be without fanaticism and occupy thyself with following the spiritual path.
Fariduddin Attar
Whoever passes his time in discussing the good and bad qualities of others, is wasting his time; for it is time spent not in thinking of his own self or the supreme self; but of other selves.
Ramakrishna
By mere controversy you will never succeed in convincing anyone of his error. When the grace of God descend upon him, each will understand his own errors.
Ramakrishna
So long as the bee is outside the calix of the flower and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it flies humming around it; but as soon as it has penetrated within, it drinks noiselessly the nectar. So long as a man disputes and discusses about doctrines and dogmas, he has not yet tasted the nectar of the true faith. When he has tasted it, he becomes tranquil and full of peace.
Ramakrishna
When water is poured into an empty jar, a gugling noise follows; but when the jar is full, no noise is heard. So the man who has not found the eternal is full of vain disputes about its existence and attributes; but he who has seen it, enjoys silently the divine bliss.
Ramakrihsna
Law for Working
The hand of an artisan is always pure when it is at work.
Manu Smriti
Indolence is an infirmity and continual idleness a soil.
Uttama Sutta
The true disciple rejects enervation and idleness; he is delivered from careless lassitude. Loving the light, intelligent and clear of vision he purifies his heart of all carelessness and idleness.
Majjhima Sutta
Sincerity
Never lie; for to lie is infamous.
Zend-Avesta
Nothing is superior to truthfulness, nor anything more terrible than falsehood.
Mahabharata
By whom is this world conquered? By the patient and truthful man.
Prashnottaratrayamala
The eternal truth shall never be attained by him who is not entirely truthful in his speech.
Ramakrishna
Upright
An upright nature and true purification is for each the uprightness of his nature.
Zend-Avesta
As one washes the hand with the hand, so uprightness is purified by uprightness. Where there is uprightness, there is wisdom and where there is wisdom, there is uprightness, and the wisdom of the upright man, the uprightness of the wise man are of all wisdom and rectitude those which bring in this world the greatest peace.
Sonadanda Sutta
There is no happiness apart from rectitude.
Buddhist Text
An upright life tastes calm repose by night and by day; it is penetrated with a serene felicity.
Buddhist Text
The man full of uprightness is happy here below, sweet is his sleep by night and by day his heart is radiant with peace.
Buddhist Text
The straight way is the love of the infinite essence.
Bahaullah
Justice
To do justice and judgement is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Proverb
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy, findeth life, righteousness and honour.
Proverb
He that soweth iniquity, shall reap vanity.
Proverb
As food mixed with poison, so is abhorrent to me a prosperity soiled by injustice.
Jatakamala
Internal Happiness
There is no happiness so great as peace of mind.
Dhammapada
Contentment, internal peace, dominion over oneself, purity, compassion, affectionate words and consideration for friends are seven sorts of fuel which keep alive the flame of happiness.
Mahabharata
Give not thy heart over to anxieties.
Mahabharata
Be Equal in all conditions
The man who has conquered himself and is tranquilised, remains fixed in his highest self, whether in pleasure or pain, in honour or in disgrace.
Bhagvad Gita
They have conquered the creation, whose mind is settled in equality.
Bhagvad Gita
Wherever they may be, upright men remain what they are in themselves. The desire of enjoyment can draw no word from the virtuous. In possession of happiness or in prey to misfortune the wise show neither pride nor dejection.
Dhammapada
Not overjoyed at gaining what is pleasant, nor disturbed, overtaken by what is unpleasant.
Bhagavad Gita
Like a piece of water that is deep, calm and limpid, having ears only for the precepts of the law the wise live in a complete serenity.
Dhammapada
For if man moves among sensible objects with the senses delivered from linking and dislike and obedient to his self, he attains to serenity. By serenity is born the slaying of all sorrows, for when the heart is serene, the intelligent mind soon comes to its poise.
Bhagvad Gita
A mind which remains calm in the midst of the vicissitudes of life, delivered from preoccupations, liberated from passion, dwelling in serenity—that is a great blessing.
Mahamangla Sutta
The wise in joy and in sorrow depart not from equality of their souls.
Buddhist Text
Nothing here below should trouble the sage.
Bhagavad Gita
Therefore, considering with a firm heart the way of the spirit, renounce the trust which made you see something durable in the cause of joy and sorrow and return into calm.
Bhagavata Purana
Be Calm
Even as the high mountain-chains remian immobile in the midst of the tempest, so the true sage remains unshaken amidst praise and blame.
Dhammapada
Let men blame him or praise, let fortune enter his house or go forth from it, let death come to him today or late, the man of firm mind never deviates from the straight path
Bhartrihari
Wherefore, O my brothers, if men blame you, condemn you, persecute or attack you, you shall not be indignant, you shall not be discouraged and your spirit shall not be cast down.
Buddhist Text
Be indifferent to the praise and blame of men; consider it as if the croakings of frogs.
Ramakrishna
The anvil of the blacksmith remains unshaken under numberless blows of the hammer; so should a man endure with unshaken patience all the ordeals and persecutios which many come upon him.
Ramakrishna
Patience is an invincible breast-plate Buddhist Scripture
Make pain and pleasure, loss and gain, victory and defeat equal to thee, then turn thyself to the battle, so shalt thou have no sin.
Bhagavad Gita
When the water of the fetid pool and the glorious Ganges shall appear to they eyes as one, when the sound of the flute and the clamour of this crowd shall have no longer any difference to thy ear, then shalt thou attain to the divine wisdom.
Ramakrishna
Preseverance
The advance each individual can make corresponds to the excellence he has been able to acquire, and he can only approach his goal by virtue of his self-preparation.
Fariduddin Attar
When he is animated by a certain desire and by hope, man ought not to shrink from risking his life. He ought not to halt for a moment in his quest, nor to remain an instant in inaction. If he halts, he will be violently rejected far from the road.
Fariduddin Attar
The aspirant to the true knowledge, if he does not halt in his progress after acquiring certain extraordinay and supernatural powers, becomes in the end rich in the eternal knowledge of the truth.
Ramakrishna
Consecrate yourselves to the purification of your own minds. Be vigilant, be presevering, be attentive, be thoughtful for your own salvation.
Mahaparinibbana Sutta
The pilgrim should never be discouraged; though he should struggle for a hundred thousand years without success to be hold the beauty of the beloved, still he should not give way to despair.
Bahaullah
It is he who is never discouraged who greatend and tastes the eternal joy.
Mahabharata
If thy first endeavour to find the eternal bears no fruit, lost not courage. Persevere and at last thous shalt obtaiin the divine grace.
Ramakrishna
Cautiousness
In the man who keeps no watch over his conduct, desire extends itself like a creeper. It wanders hither and thither like the monkey runing in the forest after a fruit.
Dhammapda
He whose thought spills not itself to this side or that, whose mind is not tormented, who is not anxious any more about good than about evil, for him there is no fear, for he watches.
Dhammapada
By zeal, by vigilance, by peace of soul the sage can make himself as an island which the waves cannot overflow.
Dhammapada
Be watchful, divest yourself of all neglectfulness; follow the path.
Buddhist Maxim
In all circumstances be wakeful.
Bahaullah
A half attention prepares the way for new illusions and allows the old to grow. By a sustained attention prevent the birth of new errors and destroy the old.
Majjhima Nikaya
Watch with care over your heart and give not way to heedlessness; practise conscientiously every virtue and let not there be born in you any evil inclination.
Buddhist text
He who was heedless and has become vigilant, shines over the darkened world like a moon in cloudness heavens.
Udanavagga
Power & Energy
Energetically resolved on the search, they must pass without ceasing from negligence to the world of effort.
Bahaullah
Many say with an appearance of humility,”I am even as an earthworm crawling in the dust…”; so always believing themselves to be earthworms, they become in time feeble as the worm. Let not discouragement enter into thy heart; despair is for all the great enemy of our progress. What a man thinks himself to be, that he in fact becomes.
Ramakrishna
In India the healers by faith command their sick to repeat with absolute conviction the words,”There is no malady in me, sickness is not.” The sickman repeats and, so mentally denied, his malady disappears. Thus if you believe yourself to be mortally weak, you find yourself actually in that condition. Know and believe that you can have an immense power, and the power will come to you in the end.
Ramakrishna
Who is the enemy? Lack of energy.
Prashnottaratrayamala
Nothing is more dangerous for man than negligence.
Mahabharata
A single day of life of the man who stimulates himself by an act of energy, is of more value than a hundred years passed in nonchalance and indolence.
Buddhist Text
Indolence is a soil.
Buddhist Text
The disciple has rejected indolence and indolence conquers him not; loving the light, intelligent, clearly conscient, he purifies his heart of all laxness and all lassitude.
Buddhist Text
I know nothing which engenders evil and weakness good so much as carelessness; in the uncaring evil appears at once and effaces good. I know nothing which engenders good and weakeness evil so much as energy; in the energetic good at once appears and evil vanishes.
Buddhist Text
Who so has been careless and has conquered his carelessness, who so having committed errors concentrates his whole will towards good, shines on the darkened world like the moon in a cloudless sky.
Buddhist Saying
Use all your forces for endeavour and leave no room for carelessness.
Buddhist Text
Thyself stimulate and direct thyself; thus self protected and clairvoyant thou shalt live happy.
Dhammapada
Arise and be not slothful! Follow the straight path! He who walks, lives happy in this world and in those beyond.
Dhammapda
About Firmness
Circumstances though they attack obstinately the man who is firm, cannot destroy his proper virtue—firmness.
Bhartrihari
Be firm in the accomplishment of your duties, the great and the small.
Buddhist Text
When you have seen your aim, hold to it, firm and unshakeable.
Dhammapada
Turn not thy head from his path till thou art led to its end; keep ever near to this door till it is opened. Let not thy eyes be shut; seek well and thou shalt find.
Fariduddin Attar
Fearless
In heaven fear is not.
Kathopanishad
It is only the coward who appeals always to destiny and never to courage.
Ramayana
He who shows not zeal where zeal should be shown, who young and strong gives himself up to indolence, who lets his will and intelligence sleep, that do nothing, that coward shall not find the way of the perfect knowledge.
Dhammapada
It needs a lion-hearted man to travel the extraordinary path; for the way is long and the sea is deep.
Fariduddin Attar
There are pearls in the depths of the ocean, but one must dare all the perils of the deep to have them. So is it with the Eternal in the world.
Ramakrishna
Pride
Such are they who have not acquired self-knowledge, men who vaunt their science, are proud of their wisdom, vain of their riches.
Ramakrishna
All other vanities can be gradually extinguished, but the vanity of the saint in his saintliness is difficult indeed to banish.
Ramakrishna
So long as a man has a little knowledge, he goes everywhere reading and preaching; but when the perfect knowledge has been attained, one ceases from vain ostentation.
Ramakrishna
So long as thou livest in the bewilderment and seduction of pride, thou shalt abide far from the truth.
Fariduddin Attar
Disinterestedness
As dawn announces the rising of the sun, so in a man disinterestedness, purity, rectitude forerun the coming of the eternal.
Ramakrishna
He must content himself with little and never ask for more than he has.
Bahaullah
O you who are vain of your mortal possessions, know that wealth is a heavy barrier between the seeker and the Desired.
Bahaullah
Children of knowledge! the slender eyeslash can prevent the eye from seeing; what then must be the effect of the veil of avarice over the eye of the heart!
Bahaullah
O thou who resumest in thyself all creation, cease for one moment to be preoccupied with gain and loss.
Omar Khayyam
Thou whom all respect, impoverish thyself that thou mayst enter the abode of the supreme riches.
Bahaullah
Thou shalt leave behind thee the embarassments with which wealth surrounds thee and thou shalt find the immensity of the spiritual kingdom.
Ahmed Halif
Coveting
There is no fire that can equal desire.
Dhammapada
Coveting is without end, but contentment is a supreme felicity; therefore the wise recognise no treasures upon the earth except contentment alone.
Mahabharata
From coveting is born grief, from coveting is born fear. To be free utterly from desire is to know neither fear nor sorrow.
Dhammapada
When a man shakes from him the clinging yoke of desire, affliction drops away from him little by little as drops of water glide from a lotus-leaf.
Dhammapada
I, such as I am, belong not to myself…A man should think thus, “All earth is mine,” or thus, ”All this belongs to others just as well as to myself,” such a man is never afflicted.
Mahabharata
Let him repulse lust and coveting, the disciple who would lead a holy life.
Dhammapada
The Fruit of Works
Poor souls are they whose work is for a reward.
Bhagavad Gita
Thou hast a right only to work, but never to its fruits.
Bhagavad Gita
It is impossile for man who has a body to abstain absolutely from all action, but whoever renounces its fruits, is the man of true renunciation.
Bhagavad Gita
He who sees that in inaction there is an act and that in works there can be freedom from the act, is the wise among men…When a man has given up the fruit of his works and is eternally content and without dependence upon things, then though occupied in works, it is not he that is doing any act.
Bhagavad Gita
When the man who does good, ceases to concern himself with the result of his act, ambition and wrath are extinguished within him.
Lalita Vistara
The act done under right rule, with detachment, without liking or dislike, by the man who grasps not at the fruit, that is a work of light.
Bhagavad Gita
Desireness & Hope
The difficulties which come to birth in the disciple, are ignorance, egoism, desire, aversion and a tenacious will to existence upon the earth.
Patanjali
O children of desire, cast off you garb of vanities.
Bahaullah
So long as man has not thrown from him the load of worldly desire which he carries about with him, he cannot be in tranquillity and at peace with himself.
Ramakrishan
The man in whom all desires disappear like rivers into a motionless sea, attains to peace, not he whom they move to longing. That man whose walk is free from longing, for he has thrown all desires from him, who calls nothing his and has no sense of ego, is moving towards peace.
Bhagavad Gita
Ah! Let us live happy without desires among those who are given up are given up to covetousness. In the midst of men full of desires, let us dwell empty of them.
Dhammapada
When his thought and feeling are perfectly under regulation and stand firm in his self, then, unmoved to longing by any desire, he is said to be in union with the self.
Bhagavad Gita
. The breath of desire and pleasure so ravages the world that is has extinguished the torch of knowledge and understanding.
Bahaullah
As the troubled surface of rolling waters cannot reflect aright the full moon, but gives only broken images of it, so the mentality troubled by the desires and passions of the world cannot reflect fully the light of the eternal.
Ramakrishna
Then is the eternal seen when the mind is at rest. When the sea of mind is tossed by the winds of desire, it cannot reflect the eternal and all divine vision is impossible.
Ramakrishna
The light of thy spirit cannot destroy these shades of night so long as thou hast not driven out desire from thy soul.
Hindu Saying
When thou art enfranchised from all hate and desire, then shalt thou win thy liberation.
Dhammapada
The Real World
Love cannot be used for the fulfilment of desire, for its nature is renunciation. Renunciation is the renunciation of ritual works and worldly affairs.
Narada Sutra
The insensate enter into the world, seduced by its false splendours. But just as it is easier to get into a net than to escape from it, so is it easier to enter into the world than, having once entered, to renounce it.
Ramakrishna
A boat can be in the water, but the water ought not to be in the boat. So the aspirant may live in the world, but the world should find no place in him.
Ramakrishna
Youth, beauty, life, riches, health, friends are things that pass; let not the wise man attach himself at all to these.
Mahabharata
In the Ineffable who is the indivisible and eternal bliss, are centered all pleasure and happiness. Those who enjoy him, can find no attraction to the facile and valueless pleasures of the world.
Ramakrishna
Reject passion and attachment, then shall be revealed in thee that which now dwells hidden from thy eyes.
Sutra in Forty-two Articles
O friend, fill not with mortal thoughts thy heart which is the seat of eternal mysteries.
Bahaullah
What offering should be made that we may attain to the Eternal? To find the eternal thou must offer him the body, thy mind and all thy possessions.
Ramakrishna
Eternity is for all time, but the world only for a moment. Sell not then for that moment thy kingdom of eternity.
Omar Khayyam
Self Introduction
This liberation is attained by him alone who has understood the lesson of complete disinterestedness and forgetfulness of self.
Ramakrishna
Knowledge is better than practice, concentration excels knowledge, to renunciation of fruits concentration; peace is the immediate result of renunciation.
Bhagavad Gita
To put an end to care for one’s self is a great happiness.
Udanavagga
One must begin by annihilating one’s self, to be able to kindle within the flame of existence and be admitted into the paths of love.
Bahaullah
Not by work, not by family, not by riches, but by renunciation great beings attain to immortality.
Kaivalya Upanishad
The individual consciousness by the attempt to measure the impersonal loses its individual egoism and becomes one with him.
Ramakrishna
Therefore regard attentively this ocean of impermanence, comtemplate it even to its foundation and labour no more to attain but one sole thing—the kingdom of the permanent.
Buddhist Text
Deliver yourself from all that is not yourself; but what is it that is not yourself? The body, the sensations, the perceptions, the relative differentiations. The liberation will lead you to felicity and peace.
Buddhist Text
My brother, a delicate heart is like a mirror; polish it by love and detachment, that the sun of the Reality may reflect itself in it and the divine Dawn arise.
Bahaullah
Cut away in thee the love of thyself, even as in autumn thy hand plucks the lotus.
Dhammapada
Root out in thee all love of thyself and all egoism.
Buddhist Text
Thou shalt have given a drop and won the sea, given thy life and won the well-beloved.
Bahaullah
All the Senses
In the man who contemplates the objects of the senses, attachment to them is born, from attachment is born desire, and from desire is born the wrath of desire; from that wrath delusion and from delusion error of the memory in the reason; from the error loss of understanding, and by the loss of understanding he goes to perdition.
Bhagavad Gita
Who is blinder even than the blind? The man of passion.
Buddhist saying
Is one, indeed, master of himself when he follows his own caprices?
Fariduddin Attar
The ignorant is the slave of his passions, the wise man is their master.
Sutra in Forty-two Articles
By the taming of the senses the intelligence grows.
Mahabharata
Not to tame the senses is to take the road of misery, to conquer them is to enter into the path of well-being. Let each choose of these two roads the one that pleases him.
Hitopadesha
Happy the man who has tamed the senses and is utterly their master.
Buddhist saying
The radiant beings themselves envy him whose senses are mastered like horses well trained by thier driver.
Udanavagga
He whose senses have become calm like horses perfectly tamed by a driver, who has rid himself of pride and concupiscence, the gods themselves envy his lot.
Dhammapada
Thus become wise, calm, submitted, passionless, enduring, master of himself, he sees the self in himself and in all beings. Sin conquers him no more, be conquers sin; sin consumes him no more, he consumes sin.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Repress then your senses; calm, minds appeased, master your bodies.
Lalita Vistara
Renounce pleasure and renounce wrath and observe justice.
Mahabharata
As a living man abstains from mortal poisons, so put away from thee all defilement.
Buddhist saying
Keep thyself from all evil in thought, in word, in act. It thou transgress not these three frontiers of wisdom, thou shalt find the way pursued by the saints.
Majjhima Nikaya
Power of Thought
They had gained this supreme perfection, to be totally masters of their thoughts.
Lotus Sutra
To control the mind! How difficult that is! It has been compared, not without good reason, to a mad monkey.
Vivekananda
Hard is the mind to restrain, light, running where it pleases; to subjugate it is a salutary achievement; subjugated it brings happiness.
Dhammapada
The mind is restless, strong insistent, violently distrubing; to control it I hold to be as difficult as to control the wind.
Bhagavad Gita
On the vacillating, the mobile mind so difficult to hold in, so difficult to master, the man of intelligence imposes a rectitude like the direct straightness which the arrow-maker gives to an arrow.
Dhammapada
So long as the mind is inconstant and inconsequent, it will avail nothing, even though one have a good instructor and the company of the saints.
Ramakrishna
Like a chariot drawn by wild horses is the mind, the man of knowledge should hold it in with an unswerving attention.
Shwetashawatara Upanishad
Each time that the mobile and inconstant mind goes outward, it should be controlled brought back into oneself and made obedient.
Bhagavad Gita
We hear it said and taught over the whole surface of the earth, ”Be good, be good.” There is hardly anywhere a child, wherever he is born, to whom one does not say, ”Do not steal, do not lie.”… But we can only be really helpful to him by teaching him to dominate his thoughts.
Vivekananda
Let not worldly thoughts and anxieties disturb the mind.
Ramakrishna
When a thought of anger or cruelty or a bad and unwholesome inclination awakes in a man, let him immediately throw it from him, let him dispel it, destroy it, prevent it from staying with him.
Buddhist Maxim
Master of the Self
The self is the master of the self, what other mater wouldst thou have? A self well-controlled is a master one can get with difficulty.
Dhammapada
Good is the mastery of the body, good the mastery of the speech, good to the mastery of the mind, good the perfect self-mastery. The disciple who is the master of himself, shall deliver his soul from every sorrow.
Dhammapada
The true treasure is self-mastery; it is the secret wealty which cannot perish.
Nidhikama Sutta
The body of man is a chariot, his mind the driver, his senses the horses. The man of intelligence who keeps watch over himself, travels on his way like an owner of a chariot, happy and contented, drawn by well-trained horses.
Mahabharata
One shoud guard oneself like a frontier citadel well defended without and within.
Dhammapada
Difficult is union with God when the self is not under governance; but when the self is well subjected, there are means to come by it.
Bhagavad Gita
When the thought of a man is without attachment, when he has conquered himself and is rid of desire, by that renunciation he reaches a supreme perfection of quietude.
Bhagavad Gita
By virile activity, by vigilant effort, by empire over himself, by moderation, the sage can make himself and island which the floods shall not inundate.
Dhammapada
He is the wise man who, having once taken up his resolve, acts and does not cease from the labour, who does not lose uselessly his days and who knows how to govern himself.
Mahabharata
Be master of thyself by taming thy heart, thy mind and thy senses; for each man is his own friend and his own enemy.
Mahabharata
Law of Nature
The man whose understanding is in union with the spirit, casts from him both good doing and evil doing; get this union, it is the perfect skill in works.
Bhagavad Gita
Learn what are the duties which are engraved in the hearts of men as their means of arriving to beatitude.
Manu Smriti
The soul is its own witness, the soul is its own refuge. Never despise thy soul, that supreme witness in men.
Manu Smriti
Command Yourselves
Self-conquest is the most glorious of victories; it shall better serve a man to conquer himself than to be master of the whole world.
Dhammapada
When a man has subdued himself and lives in perfect continence, not god, not Gandharva, not Maya, not Brahma himself can turn into defeat his victory.
Dhammapada
Battle with all thy force to cross the great torrent of desire.
Buddhist Text
Warriors! We call ourselves warriors? But of what fashion of warriors, tell me then, are we? We battle, O disciple, that is why we are called warriors. Why do we battle, O master? For lofty virtue, for high discernment, for sublime wisdom—that is why we are called warriors.
Anguttara Nikaya
I strive not against the world, but it is the world which strives against me.
Buddhist Text
It is better to perish in the battle against evil than to be conquered by it and remain living.
Padhama Sutta
The Origin of Evil
It is the blessed one, the sole being, thou sayest, who dwells in every soul; whence then come the misery and sorrow to which he is condemned by his presence in the heart of the soul of man?
Bhagavata Purana
The eternal is in every man, but all men are not in the eternal; there lies the cause of their suffering.
Ramakrishna
Sorrow is the daughter of evil.
Dhammpada
This is the noble way in regard to the origin of suffering; its origin is that thirst made up of egoistic desires which produces individual existence and which now here, now there hunts for its self-satisfaction, and such is the thirst of sensation, the thirst of existence, the thirst of domination and well-being.
Buddhist Text
It is in the foundation of our being that the conditions of existence have their root. It is from the foundation of our being that they start up and take from.
Buddhist Text
The action of man made of desire, dislike and illusion starts from his own being, in himself it has its source and, wherever it is found, must come the ripeness, and wherever his action comes to ripeness, man gathers its fruits whether in this or some other form of life.
Buddhist Text
Like burning coals are our desires; they are full of suffering, full of torment and a yet heavier distressfulness.
Buddhist Text
The man who has conquered his unreined desires, offers no hold to sorrow; it glides over him like water over the leaves of the lotus.
Buddhist Text
Every action a man performs in thought, word and act, remains his veritable possessions. It follows him and does not leave him even as a shadow separates not by a line from him who casts it.
Buddhist Text
The fruit of coveting and desire ripens in sorrow; pleasant at first it soon burns, as a torch burns the hand of the fool who has not in time cast it from him.
Sutra in Forty-two Articles
Hell has not been created by any one, but when a man does evil, he lights the fires of hell and burns in his own fire.
Mohammed
The Healing Ways
It is thus that for a very long time you have undergone suffering, affliction and distress and have augmented the harvests of death, long enough in very truth to have recognised suffering, long enough to have turned away from suffering, long enough to have enfranchised yourselves from suffering.
Sanyutta Nikaya
Follow not a law of perdition, shut not yourselves up in negligence, follow not a law of falsehood; do nothing for the sake of the world.
Dhammapada
A man shall shake off every tie; for when he has no more attachment for form and name, when he us utterly without possessions, sorrow does not run after him.
Dhammapada
I know not anything, O my brothers, which so much gives birth to good, leads to the supreme happiness and destroys evil as vigilance energy, moderation, contentment, wise reflection, a clear conscience, the friendship of the just, seeking after good and aversion from evil.
Anguttara Nikaya
If thou art weary of suffering and affliction, do no longer any transgression, neither openly nor in secret.
Buddhist Text
Leave hereafter iniquity and accomplish reighteousness.
Buddhist Text
Let a man make haste towards good, let him turn away his thought from evil.
Dhammapada
Let us strive to destroy in ourselves all that is of the animal, tht the humanity in us may be manifest.
Bahaullah
To refrain from all evil, to speak always the truth, to abstain from all theft, to be pure and control the senses, that in sum constitutes the duty which the Manu has prescribed for the four classes.
Smriti of Manu
In every way evil company should be abandoned, because it gives occasion to passion, wrath, folly, dissipation, loss of decision, loss of energy. These propensities are at first a bubbling froth, but they become as if oceans.
Narada Sutra
A man’s spiritual gain depends on his ideas and sentiments; it is the product of his heart and not ot his works.
Ramakrishna
When a man is delivered from all the dispositions of his heart which turn towards evil and not towards good and which can be extinguished, let him uproot them like the stock of a palm-tree, so that they shall be destroyed and have no power to sprout again. That I call a true repentance.
Mahavagga
For there is nothing so powerful to purify as knowledge.
Bhagavad Gita
He should sanctify his soul, for it is there that there sits the eternal beloved; he should deliver his mind from all that is the water and mire of things without reality, vain shadows, so as to keep in himself no trace of love or hatred; for love may lead into the evil way and hatred prevents us from following the good path.
Bahaullah
As the darkness of centuries is scattered when the light is brought into a chamber, so the accumulated faults of numberless births vanish before a single shaft of the light of the Almighty.
Ramakrishna
If iron is once changed to gold by the touch of the philosopher’s stone, it may be kept in the earth or thrown into a mass of ordure, but always it will be gold and can never go back to its first condition. So is it with him heart has touched, were it but a single time, the feet of the Almighty; let him dwell amidst the tumult of the world or in the solitude of the forest, by nothing can he again be polluted.
Ramakrishna
Purity of Soul
Happy is the man whose senses are purified and utterly under curb.
Udanavagga
Purity is, next to birth, the greatest good that can be given to man.
Zend-Avesta
Step by step, piece by piece, hour by hour, the wise man should purify his soul of all impurity as a silver worker purifies silver.
Dhammpada
By the practice of benevolence, tenderness, good will and indifference to the objects of happiness and sorrow, virtue and vice the mind arrives at its purification.
Patanjali
To discern the eternal reality and to detach oneself from the world are the two means of purifications of the human heart.
Ramakrishna
Whosoever purifies his own nature by holy thoughts, good words and good actions, has the real purity. Right nature is the true purification. In this visible world the true purificaton is for each man the right nature of his own natural being. And this nature is right in him when he purifies himself by holy thoughts, good words and good actions.
Zend-Avesta
Whosoever recongnises at all times his faults of omission and cleanses himself by observing the ways of purity in each one of his actions, shall attain to perfection.
Udanavagga
The mind is a clear and polished mirror and our continual duty is to keep it pure and never allow dust to gather upon its face.
Buddhist Saying
The light of the sun is the same everywhere where it may fall, but it is the clear surfaces, water and mirror and polished metals, that can give its perfect reflection. Even such is the light of the divine. It falls equally and impartially on every heart, but only the clean and pure heart can perfectly reflect it.
Ramakrishna
The soiled mirror reflects never the sunbeams, and the unclean and impure heart which is subjected to Maya, can never perceive the glory of the eternal. But the pure in heart sees the eternal, even as the clear mirror reflects the sun.
Ramakrishna
A torrent of clarity streams from the mind which is purified in full of all its impurities.
Buddhist Text
Say in yourselves, ”In the midst of this world of corruption, I would resemble the lotus which remains intangible by the mire in which it is born.”
Sutra in Forty-two Articles
Thus strive by the faith of love to burn the veils of the demoniac nature over the soul that thou mayst purify the mind and make it ready to understand.
Bahaullah
Purify thyself and thou shalt see God. Transform thy body into a temple, cast from thee evil thoughts and contemplate God with the eye of thy conscious soul.
Vamana
Renovate thyself daily.
Buddhist Inscription
Satisfaction of Desires
And I have found still four other kinds of men in the world, and what are they? Men who do only the actions that are good; men who do only the actions that are evil; men who do actions that are in part good and in part evil; and men who do actions neither good nor evil, they who consecrate themselves to a work that leads to the cessation of works.
Anguttara Nikaya
Ten knots of bondage—illusion of personality, doubt, belief in the efficacy of rites and religious practices, sensuality, ill will, desire of a future life in the world of form, desire of a future life in the world of the fommless, pride, unquietness, ignorance.
Narada Sutra
Ten high virtues—benevolence, spiritual life, intelligence, renunciation; perseverance, energy, patience, truthfulness, love for others, equality of soul.
Sangita Sutta
What is the root of evil? Greed, disliking and delusion are the root of evil. And what then are the roots of good? To be free from greed and disliking and delusion is the root of good.
Sangita Sutta
What are the roots of evil? Desire, disliking, ingnorance. And what then are the roots of good? Liberation from desire, disliking and ignorance.
Majjhima Nikaya
Three roots of evil—desire, disliking and ignorance.
Buddhist Text
Three roads to good—knowledge, the spiritual life and the control of the mind.
Sangita Sutta
Three kinds of thirst—the thirst of sensation, of existence and of annihilation.
Sangita Sutta
The contemplation of the impermanence of things, that wonderful gateway to truth, leads us to victory over the thirst for the satisfaction of our desires.
Sangita Sutta
Whether on earth or in the abodes of the gods, all beings are upon three evil paths; they are in the power of existence, desire and ignorance.
Lalit Vistara
But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
Lalita Vistara
What are the four mighty combats? The battle to keep from waking the evil which yet is not; the battle to repel the evil that is already in existence; the battle to awaken the good which yet is not; the battle to perserve and develop the good that is already in existence.
Sankhya Karika
Four roads to perfection—the way of the novice, the way of the warrior, the way of the conqueror, the way of the saint. Four conditions that we may enter into the way—the society of the just, an ear given to instruction, vigilance, a life of righteousness.
Anguttara Nikaya
Two kinds of joy are there, O my brothers, and what are they? The noisy and the silent joy; but nobler is the joy that is silent.
Sangita Sutta
Two kinds of joy are there, O my brothers, and what are they? The joy of distraction and the joy of vigilance; but nobler is the joy that is heedful.
Buddhist Text
Two kinds of joy are there, O my brothers and what are they? The joy of the sated senses and the joy of the equal soul; but nobler is the joy of equality.
Buddhist Text
Two kinds of joy are there, O my brothers and what are they? The joy of the senses and the joy of the spirit; but nobler is the joy of the spirit.
Buddhist Text
Two kinds of joy are there, O my brothers, and what are they? The joy to possess and the joy to renounce; but nobler is the joy of renunciation.
Buddhist Text
Two kinds of joy are there, O my brothers, and what are they? The joy of egoism and the joy to forget oneself; but nobler is the joy of self-oblivion.
Buddhist Text
The union the soul and nature has for its only object to give the soul the knowledge of nature and make it capable of eternal freedom.
Sankhya Karika
Endeavour maketh wisdom to grow, but negligence increaseth perdition. Perceive the double way of descent and ascension and choose the way that increaseth wisdom.
Dhammapada
I would follow the road of straightness, the unstained way of which the sages speak, which has no windings and leads straight to deliverance.
Buddhist Text
One road conducts to the goods of this world, honour and riches, but the other to victory over the world. Seek not the goods of the world, riches and honour. Let your aim be to transcend the world.
Buddhist Text
O friends, despise not the eternal Beauty for the mortal beauty, and be not held back by the things of the earth.
Bahaullah
You shall wander in the darkness and see not till you have found the eternal light.
Dhammpada
Beyond fugitive time reigns in the silence the kingdom of the permanent. O happy he who conquers here and penetrates into the country of peace!
Udanavagga
The Right Time
Let not the favourable moment pass thee by, for those who have suffered it to escape them, shall lament when they find themselves on the path which leads to the abyss.
Buddhist Text
Seek out swiftly the way of righteousness; turn without delay from that which defiles thee.
Budhhist Text
Knowest thou not that thy life, whether long or brief, consists only of a few breathings?
Fariduddin Attar
Enter not into questions of the vicissitudes of this world, ask not of things to come. Regard as booty won the present moment; trouble not thyself with the past, questions not of the future.
Omar Khayyam
Thou hast lost thyself in the search for the mystery of life and death; but seek out thy path before thy life be taken from thee. If living thou find it not, hopest thou to reach this great mystery when thou art dead?
Fariduddin Attar
Life and Death
Heedlessness is the road of death.
Buddhist Text
To be heedful of one’s soul is the way to immortality, but heedlessness is the highway of death. They who persevere and are heedful shall not perish, but the careless are even now as if souls that are dead.
Dhammapada
That man whose mind attaches itself only to sensible objects, death carries away like a torrent dragging with it a sleeping village.
Dhammpada
The foolish follow after the desires that are outward and they fall into the snare of death that is wide open for them, but the wise man sets his mind on the immortal and the certain and longs not here below for uncertain and transient things.
Kathopanishad
When all the desires that trouble the heart have fallen silent, then this mortal puts on immortality.
Kathopanishad
Who goeth into the next world undelivered from death, even as here death respecteth nothing, so in that world too shall he be its perpetual prey.
Shatapatha Brahmana
The pure shall not die, but he who leads not the spiritual life dies without ceasing. The wise man knows this difference and takes pleasure in purity and spiritually; it is his joy to live like the saints.
Udanavaga
O mortal, the enchantress sensuality is dragging thee like an untameable horse to the bottom of the tomb. Death will suddenly give the rein to thy courser and thou shalt not avail to hold her backfrom the fatal descent.
Saadi
Be not taken in the snares of the prince of death, let him not cast thee to the ground because thou hast been heedless.
Buddhist Text
When thy soils shall have vanished and thou art free of defect, thou shalt no more be subject to decay and death.
Dhammapada
Strive forcefully, cross the current.
Dhammapada
Cross forcefully the torrent flood of the world.
Dhammapada
Few among men come to that other shore of deliverance; the common run of mortals only wander parallel to its bank. But those who are consecrated to truth and live according to its law and strive for only one end, they shall come by that other shore and they shall swim across death’s impetuous torrent.
Dhammapada
Those who are consecrated to truth shall surely gain the other shore and they shall cross the torrent waves of death.
Buddhist Text
To surmount this thirst of existence, to reject it, to be liberated from it, to give it no farther harbourage.
Mahavagga
He is in truth the man of piety who is dead even in his lifetime, that is to say, whose passions and desires have been destroyed and are like a body that is dead.
Ramakrishna
He who conceives the truth, is born anew.
Vamana
So long as we do not die to ourselves and are not indifferent to creatures, the soul will not be free.
Fariduddin Attar
How shall we conquer the old man in us? When the flower becomes a fruit, the petals fall of themselves; so when the divinity increases in us, all the weakness of human nature vanish of their own accord.
Ramakrishna
O sage, very high raise thyself, even to the most high dwelling of truth.
Mahavagga
Since the world passes, thyself pass beyond it.
Fariduddin Attar
Unity & Perfection
Then are the veils torn which distinguish from each other these manifestations and he will soar up from the world of the passions to the heaven of the one.
Bahaullah
The one is attained when man arrives at ripeness in one of these three states of his spirit, “All is myself,” “All is thou,” “Thou art the master, I the servant.”
Ramakrishna
To him when the sages come, they are satisfied in knowledge, desire passes away from them, they have perfected the self, they enter in one every side into the all who pervades all things and they are united with him for ever.
Mundaka Unpanishad
The saint who has arrived at a perfect contemplation, sees the all as one only spirit and his soul loses itself in this spirit, as water is dissolved in water, as fire is united to fire, as air is made one with air.
Shankaracharya
He sees the one spirit in all beings and he sees all beings in the one spirit.
Bhagavad Gita
Thus seeing the supreme spirit equally in all beings and all beings in the supreme spirit, he, offering his soul in sacrifice, identifies himself with the being who shines in his own splendour.
Manu
Then, accomplished in knowledge, he shakes from him good and evil, and stainless, reaches that supreme equality.
Mundaka Upanishad
As the rivers flow into the ocean and lose their name and form, the sage losing name and form disappears into the supreme spirit and himself becomes that spirit.
Mundaka Upainshad
As the floods when they have thrown themselves into the ocean, lose their name and their form and one cannot say of them, “Behold, they are here, they are there, “though still they are, so one cannot say of the perfect when he has entered into the supreme Nirvana, “He is here, he is there,” though he is still in existence.
Buddhist Text
The traveller in this valley may seem to be seated in the dust, but in truth he sits upon spiritual heights receiving the eternal favours, drinkiing the exquisite wine of the spirit.
Bahaullah
Eternal Peace
The man in whose vision all things are becomings of the self and who sees in all things oneness, whence shall he have grief or delusion?
Isha Upanishad
The sage having perceived god by the spiritual union casts from him grief and joy.
Kathopanishad
Who in the world of plurality sees the one existence and in the world of shadows seized this reality, to him belongs the eternal peace, to none else, to none, else.
Vivekananda
The one controlling inner self of all existences who makes his one from into many kinds of form, him the sages see in themselves; theirs is the eternal peace and it is not for others.
Kathopanishad
The sages who see the eternal in things transient, for them is the peace eternal.
Kathopanishad
In mosque and church and synagogue one has the terror of hell and the seeking for paradise, but the seed of that disquiet has never sprouted in the heart which has entered into the secrets of the Almighty.
Omar Khayyam
When man has seen that he is one with the infinite being of the universe, all separation is at an end, all men, women, angels, gods, animals, plants, the whole world lost in this oneness, then all fear disappears.
Vivekananda
When one perceives clearly this self as god and as the Lord of all that is and will be, he knows no longer any fear.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
When one knows God without beginning and end in the midst of the complex mass of things, the creator of all who takes many forms, the one who envelops the universe, he is delivered from all bondage.
Shwetashwatara Upanishad
Good and evil cannot bind him who has realised the oneness of nature and self with the eternal.
Ramakrishna
The traveller in the valley of knowledge who sees the end of each thing, knows how to find peace amid contest and reconciliation amidst disunion.
Bahaullah
To him justice and injustice are equal, knowledge and ignorance have the same value, for he has broken the cage of personality and desire and he has flown on the wings of immortality towards the eternal heavens.
Bahaullah
In this state he wil submit to destiny, making no more of disorder than of order. Death gives him a comprehension of immortality; he sees with the spiritual eye the mystery of resurrection in men and things and his heart makes him feel the divine wisdom in these manifestations.
Bahaullah
He whose whole play of life is with the self and in the self has his joy and so does actions, is the best of the knowers of the eternal.
Mundaka Upanishad
Void of wishes, controlled in mind and spirit, abandoning all desire of external possession, satisfied with what comes to him, free from liking and disliking and from all jealousy and envy, eaual in success and failure, he acts and is not bound by his actions.
Bhagavad Gita
As a bird of the waters, such as the pelican, can dive into the waves and his plumage is not wetted, the liberated soul lives in the world, but is not affected by the world.
Ramakrishna
When the soul attains to its divine estate, it can live in constant contact with innumerable unregenerated souls without being affected by the contact.
Ramakrishna
The present world and the next are but a drop of water whose existence is of no account.
Fariduddin Attar
If we drink of this cup, we shall forget the whole world.
Bahaullah
Perfection of Knowledge
The veils that hide the light shall be rent asunder.
Bahaullah
All nature will be transfigured to them and the book of knowledge lie open. They will not need to have recourse to books in order to know; their own thought will have become thier book and will contain an infinite knowledge.
Vivekananda
When the mind is one with the deeper spirit and wholly in touch with knowledge, its universality embraces all things.
Patanjali
When the mind is one with the deeper spirit, there results the absolute knowledge of the self.
Patanjali
And then lost in the eternal, he is luminous, he is without body and matter, he is pure, he is delivered from all suffering and stain, he knows, he foresees, he masters everything, and beings appear to him what they were from eternity, constantly like unto themselves.
Isha Upanishad
The seeker will discover himself with new eyes, a new understanding, a new heart and a new soul, and with them he shall see the evident signs of the world and the obscure secrets of the soul, and he will understand that in the least object there is found a door by which one enters into the domain of self-evidence, certitude and conviction.
Bahaullah
Each moment, each hour will bring him the vision of a new mystery, because his heart is detached from this as from the other world; an invisible aid guides all his steps and fires his ardour.
Bahaullah
In each thing he will see the mystery of the transfiguration and the divine apparition.
Bahaullah
At each instant he sees a wonderful world and a new creation.
Bahaullah
When his mind shall be enfranchised from human things, then shall he enter into the city of marvellous wisdom which ever renews itself and grows in beauty from age to age.
Bahaullah
He shall contemplate under the veil millions of secrets as radiant as the sun.
Fariduddin Attar
He will see with the divine eyes the mysteries of the eternal art.
Bahaullah
Thou who by the force of thy heroism hast reached the unlimited exercise of a divine intelligence, thou hast wisdom for the force of thy means and gentleness for the force of thy pure action.
Lalita Vistara
And at last thou shalt come into that place where thou shalt find only one sole being in place of the world and its mortal creatures.
Ahmed Halif
That man, , O beloved, who knows this imperishable spirit in which the self is gathered with all its powers, lives and creatures, penetrates into all things and becomes omniscient.
Prahna Upanishad
Equal in heart, equal in thought thou has won for thyself omniscience.
Lalita Vistara
Peace to him who has finished this supreme journey under the guidance of the truth and the light.
Bahaullah
Death : The Last Truth
Young and old and those who are growing to age, shall all die one after the other like fruits that fall.
Buddhist Text
As a ripe fruit is at every moment in peril of detaching itself from the branch, so every creature born lives under a perpetual menace of death.
Buddhist Text
The lives of mortal men are like vases of many colours made by the potter’s hands; they are broken into a thousand pieces; there is one end for all.
Buddhist Text
As the herdsman urges with his staff his cattle to the stall, so age and death drive before them the lives of men.
Udanavagga
Like the waves of a river that flow slowly on and return never back, the days of human life pass and come not back again.
Buddhist Text
Like the waves of a rivulet, day and night are flowing through the hours of life and coming nearer and nearer to their end.
Buddhist Text
For things and their revolutions are like the images of a dream … so long as the dream lasts, all this world appears real to us; the world exists no longer when the dream is finshed.
Shankaracharya
Soul in Immortal
That which we are is that, yes, it is that that we become, and if one knows it not, great is the perdition: it is they who have discovered it that become immortal.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
The deeds a man has accomplished follow him in his journeying when he fares to another world.
Mahabharata
There are some who see by contemplation the self in themselves by the self, others by union though the understanding and others again know not, but hear of it from others and seek after it, and all these, even they who hear and seek after it, pass over beyond death.
Bhagavad Gita
Those become immortal who know by the heart and the understanding him who in the heart has his dwelling-place.
Shwetashwatara Upanishad
When man has known beyond this world the being who is hidden according to the form in every creature, the Lord who contains in himself all things, then he becomes immortal.
Shwetashwatara Upanishad
The sage having seen the self in everything, when he leaves this world, becomes immortal.
Kena Upanishad
That being known which is without sound, touch or form, inexhaustible, eternal, without beginning or end, greater than the great self, immutable, man escapes from the mouth of death.
Kathopanishad
He who thus knows, “I am the eternal” the gods themselves cannot make him other, for he is their own self.
Brhadaranyaka Upanishad
The Eternity of Life
He who looks on the forms of existence as a form or a mirage, shall not see death.
Samyutta Nikaya
He who regards the body as a mirage or as a flake of foam on the waves, shall no longer see death.
Dhammapada
In death he sees life.
Bahaullah
All existences are unmanifest in their origin and beginning, manifest in their middle and unmanifest again in their passing: what cause is here to lament?
Bhagavad Gita
The soul that dwells in the body of every man is unslayable, and therefore thou shouldst not weep for all these beings.
Bhagavad Gita
The wise weep not for the dead no the living: all of us were before and shall not cease to be hereafter.
Bhagavad Gita
The destruction of things is their return to the cause that has produced them.
Sankhya Pravachana
There is an eternal thinker, but his thoughts are not eternal.
Kathopanishad
All that is has already existed, but will not remain in the form in which we see in today.
Bahaullah
Time which destroys the universe, must again create the worlds.
Mahabharata
There exists an unborn, an unproduced, uncreated, unformed. If this permanent did not exist, there would be no possible issue for that which belongs to the world of the born, the produced, the created, the formed.
Udanavagga
But since there is a permanent, there is also a possible issue for that which belongs to the world of the impermanence.
Udanavagga
The smallest drop of water united to the ocean no longer dries.
Hidnu Saying
If the atom is lost in the sun of immensity, it will participate, although a simple atom, in its eternal duration.
Fariduddin Attar
That which is not cannot come to being and that which cannot cease to be.
Bhagavad Gita
All beings are from all eternity.
Ashwaghosha
Art of Life
Restore to heaven and earth that which thou owest unto them…But of this dead man there is a portion that is immortal.
Rigveda
Thyself awaken thy self: then protected by thyself and discovering thy own deepest secret, thou shalt not change.
Hindu Saying
The moment that this mystery has been unveiled to thy eyes that thou art no other than Allah, thou shalt know that thou art thine own end and aim and that thou hast never ceased and canst never cease to be.
Mohiuddin ibn Arabi
Unity of Universal Beings
Thus even though it is not durable, there is no interruption in substance.
Lalita Vistara
And all beings are resumed and reduced into one sole being, and they are one and all are He.
Zohar
All is Narayana, man or animal, the wise an the wicked, the whole world is Narayana, the supreme Spirit.
Ramakrishna
The knowledge which sees one imperishable existence in all beings and the indivisible in things divided know to be the true knowledge.
Bhagavad Gita
The idea of thou and I is a fruit of the soul’s ignorance.
Bhagavata Purana
Let the sage unifying all his attentive regard see in the divine spirit all things visible and invisible.
Manu
He that thus knoweth, becometh the self of all beings. As is that Divinity, such is he. And as to that divinity all beings have good will, even so to him that thus knoweth all beings have good will.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
That man who seeth the self in all beings and all beings in the self, has no disdain for anythintg that is.
Isha Upanishad
And let this be our thought,”Our bodies are different, but we have one and the same heart.”
Mahavagga
All are Equal
The vulgar say: “This is one of ours or a stranger.” The noble regard the whole earth as their family.
Bhartrihari
The man who recognises in his own soul the supreme soul present in all creatures, shows himself the same to all.
Manu
When I see the chaste women of respectable families, I see in them the Divine clothed in the robe of a chaste woman; and again, when I see the public women of the city seated on their verandahs in thier raiment of immorality and shame, I see also in them the Divine at play after another fashion.
Ramakrishna
The Interdependence of Beings
And all things depend one on the other and all are bound to each other… all is that Ancient one and nothing is separate from him.
Zohar
Listen to Nature: she cries out to us that we are all members of one family.
Saadi
The sons of Adam are the members of one body, for in the creation they are made of one single nature. When fortune casts one member into suffering, there is no rest for the others. O thou who art without care for the pain of another, it is not fitting that one should give thee the name of man.
Saadi
The Law’s of Love
At all things love is the greatest thing.
Narada Sutra
An atom of love is to be preferred to all that exists between the two horizons.
Fariduddin Attar
Love is immortal. Man obtaining it becomes perfect, becomes satisfied, becomes immortal. Once it is obtained, he desires nothing, is not afflicted, does not hate, is not diverted, stains no more after anything.
Narada Sutra
Love is the deliverance of the heart.
Anguttata Nikaya
It was by love that beings were created and it is commanded to them to live in love and harmony.
Bahaullah
Let the disciple consecrate himself to love, not in order to seek for his own happiness, but let him take pleasure in love for the love of love.
Jataka Tales
To love, one must have no reservation, but be prepared to cast oneself into the flame and to give up into it a hundred worlds….. In this path there is no difference between good and evil; indeed with love neither good nor evil exists any longer.
Fariduddin Attar
Reason cannot dwell with the madness of love—love has nothing to do with the human reason.
Fariduddin Attar
Sustain one another in a mutual love.
Cullavaga
Cherish in your hearts a love without any limit for the whole world and make your love to radiate over the world in all directions without any shadow of animosity or hate.
Metta Sutta
Whether you are standing or walking, whether you are seated or lying down, consecrate yourselves wholly to love: it is the best way of life.
Metta Sutta
Practise love and only love.
Narada Sutra
O my friends, plant only flowers of love in the garden of hearts.
Bahaullah
All beings aspire to happiness, therefore envelop all in thy love.
Mahabharata
Melt thy soul in the fire of love and thou wilt know that love is the alchemist of the soul.
Ahmed Halif
Be useful one to the other and the earth will flourish under your hands and wild animals will be obliged to respect your union.
Saadi
You will end by the discovery that the best means of health is to watch over the good health of others, and that the surest way to feel happy is to watch over the happiness of others.
Vivekananda
What is virtue? It is sensibility towards all creatures.
Hitopadesha
The wise man acts towards all beings even as towards himself.
Mahabharata
To do no evil to any being, neither by action, nor by thought, nor by word: to will the good and to practise it: such is the eternal law of the good.
Mahabharata
He who does no evil to any is as if the father and mother of all beings.
Mahabharata
He must be good to animals, yet better to men.
Bahaullah
The poor animals who live in an obscure consciousness of dream possess many rights to love and compassion.
Jataka Tales
When the incapacity to hurt and goodness are fully developed in him who has attained to the enlightened culture of the soul, there is a complete absence of enmity towards men, as also towards the animals who are near to him.
Patanjali
A man is not a master because he despotidcally subjects beings living at his mercy. He can be called a master who has compassion for all that lives.
Dhammapada
By not doing evil to creatures and mastering one’s senses…one arrives here below at the supreme goal.
Laws of Manu
Discovering himself every where and in all things, the disciple embraces the entire world in a sentiment of peace, of compassion, of love large, profound and without limits, delivered from all wrath and all hatred.
Majjhima Nikaya
Without stick or sword, filled with sympathy and benevolence, let the disciple show to all beings love and compassion.
Majjhima Nikaya
Nourish in your heart a benevolnece without limits for all that lives.
Metta Sutta
Do no harm to an ant that is carrying its grain of corn, for it has a life, and sweet life is a good.
Firdausi
Do not Kill Anybody
The man who consents to the death of an animal, he who kills it, he who cuts it up, the buyer, the seller, he who prepares the flesh, he who serves it and he who eats it, are all to be regarded as having taken part in the murder.
Manu Smriti
Whosoever seeketh to attain his personal happiness by maltreating or making to perish beings who were also striving after happiness …shall not find happiness.
Majjhima Nikaya
But the man who bringeth not by his own movement on living beings the pains of slavery and death and who desireth the good of all creatures, attaineth to happiness.
Manu Smriti
He who abstains from all violence towards beings, to the weak as to the strong, who kills not and makes not to kill, he, I say, is a Brahmin.
Dhammapda
Even as I are these, even as they am I—identifying himself thus with others, the wise man neither kills nor is a cause of killing.
Sutta Nipata
What is dearest in the world to beings is their own self. Therefore from love for that own self which is so dear to beings, neither kill nor torment any.
Samyutta Nikaya
Don’t Hurt & Hate
The ills we inflict upon our neighbours follow us as our shadows follow our bodies.
Krishna
There is nowhere in this world, nor in the air, nor in the midst of the ocean any place where we can disembarrass ourselves of the evil we have done.
Dhammapada
Show kindness unto thy brothers and make them not to fall into suffering.
Chadana Sutta
He is not a man of religion who does ill to another. He is not a disciple who causes suffering to another.
Dhammapada
Never to cause pain by thought, word or act to any living being is what is meant by innocence. Than this there is no higher virtue. There is no greater happiness than that of the man who has reached this attitude of good will towards all creation.
Vivekananda
Brothers, be good one unto another.
Bahaullah
There is no pollution like unto hatred.
Budhhist Text
Whosoever nourishes feelings of hatred against those who hate, will never purify himself, but one who in reply to hatred awakens love, appeases and softens those who are filled with hatred.
Dhammapada
That he mey vanquish hate, let the disciple live with a soul delivered from all hate and show towards all beings love and compassion.
Majjhima Nikaya
For it is an ancient and a true saying. Never shall hate be vanquished by hate, only by love is hatred extinguished.
Udanavagga
Let not one even whom the whole world curses, nourish against it any feeling of hatred.
Sutta Nipata
For never in this world can hate be appeased by hate: hatred is vanquished only by love, that is the eternal law.
Dhammapada
Ah, let us live happy without hating those who hate us. In the midst of men who hate us, let us live without hatred.
Dhammapada
Anger
It is by gentleness that one must conquer wrath, it is by good that one must conquer evil.
Dhammapada
One who returns not wrath to wrath, saves himself as well as the other from a great peril: he is a physician to both.
Mahabharata
He who makes to be heard words without harshness, true and instructive, by which he injures none, he, I say, is a Brahmin.
Dhammapada
I pledge myself from this day forward not to entertain any feeling of irritatiion, anger or ill humour and to allow to arise within me neither violence nor hate.
Buddhist Text
Not to Do unto Others
Let us act towards others as we would that they sould act towards us: let us not cause any suffering.
Dhammapada
What you wish others to do, do yourselves.
Ramakrishna
Do not to others what would displease thee done to thyself: this is the substance of the law; all other law depends on one’s good pleasure.
Mahabharata
I would act towards others with a heart pure and filled with love exactly as I would have them act towards me.
Lalita Vistara
With a heart pure and overflowing with love I desire to act towards others even as I would toward myself.
Buddhist Text
The just holds his own suffering for a gain when it can increase the happiness of others.
Jataka Tales
Concord & Respect
An apostle of the truth should have no contest with any in the world.
Samyutta Nikaya
The disciple lives as a reconciler of those that are divided, uniting more closely those that are friends, establishing peace, preparing peace, rich in peace, pronouncing always words of peace.
Metta Sutta
Have a care that ye sow not among men the seeds of discord.
Bahaullah
Courtesy is the most precious of jewels. The beauty that is not perfected by courtesy is like a garden without a flower.
Buddhacharita
Let the superior man bear himself in the commerce of men with an always dignified deference, regarding all men that dwell in the world as his own brothers.
Narada Sutra
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