we never really encounter the world; all we experience is our own nervous system.
Performing the duty prescribed by nature, one incurred no sin.
Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, everlasting long. You must accept them.
It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbours the perception that says “I did it”
Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.
We behold what we are, and we are what we behold.
Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.
I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.
No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.
Better than mechanical practice is knowledge.Better than knowledge is meditation.
The spirit is beyond destruction. No one can bring an end to the spirit which is everlasting.
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits.
Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom.
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.