Every time you draw a line between who’s in and who’s out, you’ll find Jesus on the other side.
-Duane Priebe
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
-Betty Smith
Enlightenment--that magnificent escape from anguish and ignorance--never happens by accident. It results from the brave and sometimes lonely battle of one person against his own weaknesses.
-Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano
Patience comes in three stages:
first, one learns not to follow the baser self;
second, one learns to content oneself with one's fate;
finally, one surrenders oneself to the Master's will and discovers within love and compassion, the greatest of all achievements.
-Al-Ghazzali
Where there is great hatred, are the fetters of hell.
Where there is great avarice, are the fetters of the tortured spirits.
Where there is great ignorance, are the fetters of the beasts.
Where there is great lust, are the fetters of man.
Where there is great envy, are the fetters of the demigods.
Where there is great pride, are the fetters of the gods.
These are the six fetters of non-liberation.
-Hundred Thousand Songs
Right speech, harmlessness,
Restraint in speaking ill of others,
Moderation in food, at peace in remoteness and solitude,
Devotion to higher meditation.
This is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhammapada
Strengthen yourselves with patient prayer. God is close to those who are patient. Those who have died in God's cause, are not dead; they are alive, even though you cannot see them.
-Qur'an, Al-Baqara