DwarkaMai - Sai Baba Forum
Main Section => Spiritual influence on Lifestyle => Topic started by: GaneshHariharan on July 01, 2009, 11:34:59 AM
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* An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
* A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
* Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
* One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
* It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
* All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
* A 'NO' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
* It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
* In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
* There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
* Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
* The Seven Deadly Sins are wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without
sacrifice and politics without principle.
* The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up
the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
* My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
Om Sairam.