The Lord Is A Good Psychologist: He

It May Sound Paradoxical, But However Tight Our Schedule, However Many Things Clamor To Be Done, We Don't Need To Hurry. If We Can Keep Our Mind Calm And Go About Our Business With Undivided Attention, We Will Not Only Accomplish More But We'll Do A Better Job - And Find Ourselves More Patient, More At Peace.

The Spiritual Life Is A Call To Action. But It Is A Call To ... Action Without Any Selfish Attachment To The Results.

The Sufis Advise Us To Speak Only After Our Words Have Managed To Pass Through Three Gates. At The First Gate, We Ask Ourselves, 'are These Words True?' If So, We Let Them Pass On; If Not, Back They Go. At The Second Gate, We Ask, 'are The Necessary?' At The Last Gate, We Ask, 'are They Kind?'

My Grandmother Lived In A Universe Filled With Life. It Was Impossible For Her To Conceive Of Any Creature - Even The Smallest Insect, Let Alone A Human Being - As Insignificant. In Every Leaf, Flower, Animal, And Star She Saw An Expression Of A Compassionate Universe, Whose Laws Were Not Competition And Survival Of The Fittest But Cooperation, Artistry And Thrift. . . .

I Have Never Been Able To Understand The Compelling Phrase, 'keeping Up With The Joneses.' It Does Not Matter Very Much Whether I Keep Up With Tom Jones Or Anybody Else; What Is Important Is To Keep Up With Myself By Making My Today A Little Better Than My Yesterday.