Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation. . . even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.
Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any object in it, a pure mirror. By dhyan, this purity of the mind is indicated. So first, no object should be in the mind. Mind must remain alone without thinking about anything - with no thought, just a consciousness, just an awareness, just an alertness. This alertness without any object is meditation.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state
All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.
How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!
Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.
Temple going is for the purification of the soul.
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.
The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.
Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
The moment you understand that there is an essence of purity in you, you will realize reality. The moment you realize reality you will have royalty, and then you don't have to say or do a thing. When your presence will work then you will emit wisdom.
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
We want his power more than his purity.
The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths