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Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
Do work of all kinds with a mind that is void and to the voidness surrender all of the fruits.
Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.
The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.
Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.
All beings may dance at ease in the breeze with minds left silent by laying to rest all things.
We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.
We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.
Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.
If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.
It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.
The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.
We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
To be or not to be is not the question. The question is whether you can transcend these notions.
I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.
It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.
I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!
Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.
Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit.
The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.
I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.
We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.