What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.
. . . Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!
If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.
If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.
Those who are not capable of sinning are said that they have attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises them even more. This makes them both free and above this world. But only Love creates. He who became free thanks to knowledge, because of Love remains a slave of those who have not managed to attain the Freedom of knowledge yet. He brings the knowledge to them and this develops the latter because it calls them to the Freedom. Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"
The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.
Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!
Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness in the form of Homo sapiens or Little Green Men, for example - can be construed as a highway to heaven, but must be viewed as a tortuous track rutted with uncountable obstacles and festooned with innumerable alternative branches. Any reasonably precise repetition of our earthly route on another planet therefore becomes wildly improbable even in a trillion cases.
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.