“The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances. How do I guess at the future? Based on the omens of the present. The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“This animal called man has some religious influence, but he is guided by economy.”
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
“religion is no matter of books and beliefs, but of spiritual realisation.”
― Meditation and Its Methods
― Meditation and Its Methods
“He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work”
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
― Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
“I’m like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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