All

“Love, and do what you will.”

“ The real secret of life is to be completely engaged with what you are doing here and now. And instead of calling it work, calling it play.”

‘You will not enter Paradise until you have faith and you will not have faith until you love each other. Shall I show you something that, if you did, you would love each other? Spread peace between yourselves.

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”

Karma dictates certain conditions over which we have no control — when and where we are born, for instance — but within that situation we are presented with choices.”

“Religion creates community, community creates altruism, and altruism turns us away from self and toward the common good.”

“Your actions produce reactions that follow you like shadows. Just as a tall person’s shadow is tall and a short person’s shadow is short, ugly words will produce ugly echoes, and good intentions will produce good reactions. For every action there is a reaction, and for every cause there is an effect.”

“Around us, life bursts forth with miracles—a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere.”

“Peace is not the absence of chaos in the world, but the absence of conflicts within us.”

“everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

“Instead of becoming a man of success, try to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

What we think, we become.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.

Watch your actions, for they become habits.

Watch your habits, for they become your character.

And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

“Dreams are the ones that don’t let you go to bed, not the ones that you get when you sleep”

The Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor in human creation, in however exalted a guise later may present themselves to us

“The next great frontier of human exploration is not outer space, but inner space—the awakening of human consciousness”

‘Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.’

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of passionate intensity.”

you’re “too busy” to meditate for ten minutes a day, you should meditate for an hour a day.

The stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. “

“If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.”

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes

Life is half spent before one knows what life is

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

My humanity is bound up in yours – for we can only be human together

“The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me,

apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope

“People will forget what you said, what you did, but never forget how you made them feel”

All joy in this world comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering in this world comes from wanting only oneself to be happy.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving—by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done

“One can’t love humanity, one can only love people.”

“This supreme Lord who pervades all existence, the true Self of all creatures, may be realized through undivided love.”

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”As Marx said:

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” 

Each person must never be treated only as a means to some other end, but must also be treated as an end themselves.”

“vain was the word of the philosopher that does not heal the suffering of man”.

“We draw the circle of family too narrow. Expanding our circle of love as we expand our awareness is key to living a meaningful life.”

“The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

“Love is the most powerful force in the universe. It is the eternal fire that burns within the heart and connects us all.”

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

“Whoever wants to understand much must play much.”

“Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.”

“The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.”

The rules are: the more playful we get, the more we can get rid of the rules.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age

“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.”

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.”

“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.”

“Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.”

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.”

“Play is the beginning of knowledge.”

“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players” — Shakespeare

Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good”

“Play is often talked about as if it was a relief from serious learning, but for children, play is really the work of childhood”

The power of love, as the basis of state, has never been tried.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you Loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, it is the people, it is the people.

Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.

Necessity may be the mother of invention but play is certainly the father.

Play is the highest form of research.

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.

Every day you play with the light of the universe

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.

We all need empty hours in our lives or we will have no time to create or dream.

All meaningful, organic, and foundational learning is at heart playful and ludic.

Life is playfulness. We need play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.

What doubt is to science, irony is to personal life

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote Blaise Pascal.“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Vulnerability is not weakness. It’s our most accurate measure of courage

Be humble. Don’t think you’re better than anyone else. For dust you are and dust you shall return

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Love is the only energy that transcends the inertia of nature and takes one to the shores of ultimate awareness

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through. It may be buried, obscured from view, hard to find, and hard to trust . . . but it is there.

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.

From my own limited experience I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the
energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered
fire.

Only eyes filled with love can see God.

Let there be love with every breath

“In as much as our God is one God and the Creator of all mankind, He provides for and protects all. We acknowledge Him as a God of kindness, justice and mercy. Why then should we, His children and followers, war and fight, bringing sorrow and grief into the hearts of each other? God is loving and merciful. His intention in religion has ever been the bond of unity and affinity between human kind.”

“It is as if they have a Supreme Guidance, but there is no way of grasping such a One.
He can certainly act, of that there is no doubt,
but I cannot see his body[…]
There must be some Supreme Ruler who is over them all.”

“There is one god, named truth, the creator, without fear, without hate, timeless in form, beyond birth, self-existent, (known by) the grace of the Guru.”

“Neither gods nor sages know my origin, for I am the source from which the gods and sages come. Whoever knows me as the Lord of all creation, without birth or beginning, knows the truth and frees himself from all evil.”

I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, ‘who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

“In brotherly love there is the experience of union with all men, of human solidarity, of human at-onement. Brotherly love is based on the experience that we are all one. The differences in talents, intelligence, knowledge are negligible in comparison with the identity of the human core common to all men.”

“It is in playing, and only in playing, that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.”

“The very existence of youth is due in part to the necessity for play; the animal does not play because he is young, he has a period of youth because he must play.”

“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”

“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“Our true relationships in life are never to the material side of things. Reflect for a moment and you will recognize that you love your child or your garden or a poem because you have worked your way through its exteriority to an interior relationship with it.”

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

“[L]ove [is] the Divine energy. This primal love is Gift-love. In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.”

A creed that tells us that we are no more than selfish genes, with nothing in principle to separate us from the animals, in a society whose strongest motivators are money and success, in a universe that came into existence for no reason whatsoever and for no reason will one day cease to be, will never speak as strongly to the human spirit as one that tells us we are in the image and likeness of God in a universe he created in love.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you Loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.”

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever be free.

“It’s life that matters, nothing but life–the process of discovering the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself at all.”

“What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, it is the people, it is the people.”

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

If I had an hour to save the world, I’d spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.