Today’s One-Liner (#52)
The day is short, and the work is great, and the laborers are sluggish, and the reward is much, and the Master is urgent. –Rabbi Tarfon, in Joseph Hertz, Sayings of the Fathers (or Pirke…
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Today’s One-Liner (#51)
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. –Mother Teresa
Today’s One-Liner (#50)
I tell you one thing – if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. —Sri Sarada Devi
Today’s One-Liner (#49)
Dostoevsky says that we are all responsible for everything, before everyone, and I more than all the others. –Emmanuel Levinas, Is It Righteous to Be?
Today’s One-Liner (#48)
It is this attitude—this unblinking alertness to the meaning of each moment— that probably accounts for the intense compression of Thérèse’s spiritual development. –Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
Today’s One-Liner (#46)
Pain is an enemy only when we do not welcome it as a friend. —Indian proverb Quoted in Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes
Today’s One-Liner (#45)
Tout le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement. –La Rochefoucauld, Maxim #89 Everybody complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgement. #89 –Translation by…
The Teachings
However little education a man may have, he cannot but know that Christ did not sanction murder, but taught kindness, meekness, forgiveness of injuries, love of one’s enemies—and therefore he cannot help seeing that on…
Today’s One-Liner (#44)
Keep God in your heart like you keep money in a safe. –Maharajji, in Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba, compiled by Ram Dass
Aspiration
May my eyes always see what is good.May my ears always hear what is good.May my mouth always speak what is good. –Eknath Easwaran, The Constant Companion: Inspiration for Daily Living from The Thousand Names…