“Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that’s true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.”
– Peter McWilliams

Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even.

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”

– Victor Hugo

“Every action has its seed in a thought and every thought is a creation of the thinker, the soul. I choose what thoughts I want to create and as is my thinking so are my actions and also my experience in life. Going within, I touch the stillness and pure love that lie at the core of my being and every thought that I create is of benefit to myself and of benefit to humanity.”

– Dilip Shah

There is no fear for a person with the right perception.

“There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.”

– Denis Diderot

Power and status are like the fleeting colours of a butterfly whose life is only of a few moments.