Henry David Thoreau Quotes

With renunciation life begins.

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light.

To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

I am someone without an ego.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.