One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive.
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of ‘I’, ‘me’, and ‘mine’ to be united with the Lord. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality.
When a man honours his father and mother, God says, “I regard it as though I had dwelt among them and they had honoured me."
