Wisdom

Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more people are entertained by their beauty, the more beautiful they think they must be. This is very unfortunate and I would like young girls to know that their beauty is a crown; not a clown. And crowns are best worn with elegance and serenity.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness...

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.

Each temptation leaves us better or worse.

There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.” I pictured each. “There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good.

The one, whose worldly entanglements have gone, is called the ‘Absolute Person’ (Sampoorna Purush).

Live and learn and pass it on.

I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

All great works start with mistake. Ain’t no exception in this fact.

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects (Works, Vol. Iv, p. 327).

...There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

Motivational and moral books can change your present and future. Only The Bible can change your past.

I'm beginning to think of hope as a dangerous, terrifying thing.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.