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"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

Some people show up in your life. Others are truly present.

Traveller, the road is only your footprint, and no more; traveller, there's no road, the road is your travelling. Going becomes the road and if you look back you will see a path none can tread again. Traveller, every track leaves its wake on the sea... Once in this place where bushes now have thorns the sound of a poet's cry was heard 'Traveller there's no road the road is your travelling...'

"Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day."

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"The real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ...

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.