A person who is eager for war [conflict] is blind.
He never looks at the enemy.
He only projects the enemy.
When a battle is raging within,
Enemies appear on the outside.
- Bhagawad Geeta
When one seeks to regulate something,
He is in fact going contrary to it.
When one seeks to embellish something,
He is in fact harming it.
Nonaction does not mean being completely inert,
But rather that nothing is initiated from the ego-self.
- Huai Nan Tzu
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know.
Build with what they have.
The best of Leaders, when the job is done, when the task is accomplished,
The people will say, we have done it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.'
- Confucius
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Let me help you or you will drown,” said the monkey, placing the fish safely up in a tree.
-African Proverb.
Take time to listen to what is said without words, to oey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
- Lao Tzu
It is because we have at the present moment everybody claiming the right of conscience without going through any discipline whatsoever that there is so much untruth being delivered to a bewildered world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within
- Mahatma Gandhi
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings
- Mahatma Gandhi
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner; neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify men for usefulness and happiness
If adversity hath killed his thousands, then prosperity hath killed his ten thousands; therefore adversity is to be preferred.
The one deceives, the other instructs; the one is miserably happy, the other happily miserable; and therefore many philosophers have voluntarily sought adversity and commend it in their precepts.
- Richard E. Burton, Writer
