Quotes by Life

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.”

“It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.”

“There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst because it means people do not care. Yet all of these are part of the parcel of land that we call huma...”

“The value of doing something does not lie in the ease or difficulty, the probability or improbability of its achievement, but in the vision, the plan, the determination and the perseverance, the ef...”

“The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)”

“We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely...”

“Everything is defeated before love.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

“Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing”

“When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God...”

“Dont work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Dont make work your whole life.”

“Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.-- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality”

“..it's not how much you work, but how working so much makes you feel that counts. And how I felt was iserable.”

“The more completely you can be yourself, the more fully and consciously you participate in the world.”

“Without energy being invested in resisting the unwanted or dueling with fears, we have more energy and attention available for noticing not only the disturbing, but the wonderful...When we are not ...”

“It's all about having fun and feeling good!”

“Whether we "spiritualize" our life or "secularize" our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at the secular one, the real life of the world, for which we are to...”