A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
The teachings on love given by the Buddha are clear, scientific, and applicable. . . Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are the very nature of an enlightened person. They are the four aspects of true love within ourselves and within everyone and everything.
I testify of our Savior, Jesus Christ, whose teachings and example we seek to follow. He invites all of us who are heavy laden to come unto Him, to learn of Him, to follow Him, and thus to find rest to our souls.
I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.
What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.
Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.
Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world?. . . I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran , which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka , the Tao-te-king of Laotze , the Kings of Confucius , the Veda and the Avesta.