Today’s One-Liner (#68)
Lovers of God do not belong to any caste. –Sri Ramakrishna, in M., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Soul-Power
A healthy ego is transformed into a soul only via the burden of another who must impinge on the ego, causing the ego to shrink, as it were. –Ira F. Stone, A Responsible Life: The…
Today’s One-Liner (#64)
Dullness was not an inevitable consequence of age, but of education. –Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Today’s One-Liner (#62)
It is not things that disturb people but their judgments about things. –Epictetus, in A.A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life
Today’s One-Liner (#61)
It is perhaps even more useful to contemplate our stupidity than our sin. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Today’s One-Liner (#60)
Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. –Staretz Zosima, “Of Prayer, Love, and the Touching of Other Worlds,” in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Easter morning 2012, Chouteau AvenuePhoto by Andrew Wimmer
Share the Wealth
I am justified in preserving too many of Johnson’s sayings, than too few. –James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
Today’s One-Liner (#58)
“Ram Dass, give up anger.” Neem Karoli Baba (aka Maharajji), quoted in Ram Dass, Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
Today’s One-Liner (#57)
The purer your thinking, the finer will be your work. –Sri Anandamayi Ma, in Joseph Fitzgerald, ed., The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma: Life and Teachings of a 20th Century Indian Saint
Today’s One-Liner (#56)
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. –Mother Teresa