Bathe in the water of virtues, apply the perfume of truth to your body.
This spake Guru Nanak
Tag: Virtue
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Horace (B.C. 65-8)
The Pagan philosophers teach that by cultivating goodness…
The Pagan philosophers teach that by cultivating goodness we can purify ourselves of our selfishness. This breaks the chains that bind us to our illusionary ego-self, freeing us to experience our true divine nature. Central to the Pagan path is accepting whatever life brings us as our divinely decreed fate; surrendering the illusion of personal power and recognising ourselves as ‘puppets of God’. This is not passive resignation, but actively engaging with the things as they are by being a willing vehicle of God’s unfolding purpose in the universe.
Tim Freke
One cannot see God as long as one…
One cannot see God as long as one feels ‘I am the doer’. Fully awakened souls are beyond virtue and vice. They realize that it is God who does everything.
Ramakrishna
Education is not merely a means for earning…
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
-Vijayalakshmi Pandit