I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
Aim for service and success will follow!
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.
God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.
For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.
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