Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Lamayuru Monastery, Ladakh, India

 

Timeless ideas

[1] Beauty is created out of variety.

[2] By nature, men are nearly alike; by habit, they get to be wide apart.

[3] All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

[4] Thought has its birth and death like a living being, and the life of a thought is incomparably longer than that of a living being in the physical body.

[5] In thinking, goodness shows itself in depth; in giving, in love; in speaking, in truth.

[6] Well-spoken words are spoken at the right time, are true, gentle and beneficial, and are spoken with a loving heart.

[7] Peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character.

[8] True beauty is hidden. Seek it then, in the invisible world.

[1]     Hazrat Inayat Khan (Sufism) AD 1882 – 1927
[2]     Confucius 551 – 479 BC
[3]     Dhammapada (Buddhism) 3rd century BC
[4]     Hazrat Inayat Khan (Sufism) AD 1882 – 1927
[5]     Lao Tzu    6th century BC
[6]     Anguttara Nikaya (Buddhism) c. 6th – 3rd century BC
[7]     Spinoza    AD 1632 – 1677.
[8]     Farid ud-Din Attar (Sufism) c. AD 1145 – 1221 

 

Thoughts about Compassion and Peace

'Compassion is not an attribute. It is the LAW of LAWS - eternal Harmony, Alaya's SELF; an endless universal essence, the light of eternal Justice, the right arrangement of all things the law of eternal love.'

The Voice of the Silence, translated from the 'Book of Golden Precepts' by H.P. Blavatsky

 

'Let your Soul lend its ear to every cry of grief, as the lotus opens her heart to drink in the morning sun. Let not the bright Sun dry one tear of sorrow, Before thou thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer's eye. Yet let every burning tear fall on thy heart and remain there, and never wipe it away till the pain that made it flow is removed.'

The Voice of the Silence, translated from the 'Book of Golden Precepts' by H.P. Blavatsky

 

'If you ever attain a clear vision of the unseen world, only then will you be able to recognise the Source of Love. By the fragrance of Love every atom in the world is intoxicated.'

Conference of Birds, 12^th century Sufi Poem

 

'When we recognize in how many ways we are alike and that we are inseparable, we are able to develop empathy and compassion. By developing empathy and compassion, we are able to move forward toward forgiveness.'

Desmond Tutu

 

'Self-analysis should lead us to inexhaustible compassion. We should always keep in mind that every living being is an expression of the Infinite, regardless of its external capacity.'

The gods await, Katherine Tingley

 

'Those who are free from hateful thoughts will certainly find peace. Peace comes from within.'

Buddha

 

'Peace is not so much a goal far away in the future as a means by which we can reach that goal.'

Martin Luther King

 

'He who does not know inner peace himself will not find peace in his encounters with other people either; and never can peaceful relations be established between individuals or between entire nations until one realizes this.'

Dalai Lama

 

'If anyone thinks love and peace is a cliché from the 1960s, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.'

John Lennon