Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. ~ John C. Maxwell 90% of problems in life arise due to deficiencies in our behavior and attitude. By plugging these deficiencies our life will be happier and more peaceful than now. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi Education is culturing our behavior and attitude. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
=Emmet Fox |
An ethical life purifies the mind. By living an ethical life, one progresses towards the realization of the Divine. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. ~ Taisen Deshimaru ( Zen Buddhist master and founder of Association Zen Internationale ) Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right. ~ Taisen Deshimaru Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture. ~ Taisen Deshimaru |
Ethical discipline is a necessary pre-requisite for philosophical enquiry and Self-realisation. Ethics is an enquiry into the nature of good and is concerned with an analysis of the concepts of good and bad, virtue and vice, right and wrong. ~ Swami Sivananda Ethics lead to restraint of the lower self and thereby the mind is calmed. Through calmness of mind, discrimination dawns and one knows the Self. Without ethical perfection there is no spiritual progress. ~ Swami Sivananda |
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action. ~ Ramana Maharshi The result of spiritual practice should be our inner transformation into better human beings. After practicing for months or years, we should be less prone to anger, pride, and jealousy. Our practice should lead us to a vaster, calmer mind. ~ Shechem Rabjam Rinpoche |
By myself:
Once upon a time an eagle desired to teach virtues and wisdom to the frogs. With time they grew insolent, and considering themselves better than the bird began to criticize its ways. The eagle then flew away to the sky and abandoned the frogs in the swamp. |
The Evagrian Ascetical System
I Treatise on the Practical Life (Text) -- 9 76 Angels rejoice when vice is diminished; demons, however, when virtue is diminished. The former are servants of mercy and charity; the latter are subjects of anger and hatred. And the first, when they approach, fill us with spiritual contemplation; the second, when they draw near, cast the soul into shameful imaginations. 77 The virtues do not stop the attacks of the demons but they preserve us unharmed. |
Once you overcome the hatred within your mind, you will discover that in the world outside, there is no longer any such thing as even a single enemy. ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche We may shout, ‘Let there be peace!’ but this won’t really bring peace. Peace will appear in the world around us only when each individual learns to tame the disturbances arising within his or her own mind. ~ Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche . We find in others what is in us. If we always find mud around us, it proves that there is mud somewhere in us. ~ Mira Alfassa When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside. ~ Thubten Zopa Rinpoche |
Every child should be taught mental hygiene - that is nonviolence. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living beings. Compassion aims at doing good to all beings. ~ Amit Ray Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness. ~ Amit Ray At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. ~ Martin Luther King The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state. ~ Amit Ray Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice. ~ Amit Ray Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. ~ Mahatma Gandhi If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.~ Amit Ray Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit. ~ Amit Ray |
A strong mind is cultivated by living moral values. All outer actions start gathering a dazzling polish, once your mental values change. A morally strong person spends less of his mental powers in facing the day to day problems of life. ~ Swami Chinmayananda
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. ~ Ralph waldo Emerson Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ~ William Butler Yeats |
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