“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 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.
“Very fortunate is the one who has learned to admire, but not to envy. To envy others neither diminishes their good fortune nor increases your own.”
– Dilip Shah
“The best way to harness emotional energy is to be totally defenseless. When there is nothing to attack, it makes you invincible.”
– Deepak Chopra
We are all so obsessed with the unimportant, that we lose sight of the essential.
– Manish Modi
One, who washes away the dirty heap of greed with the water of equanimity and contentment, attains the everlasting happiness, Moksha.
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