Some people say torture doesn’t work. I do not know whether it does or not. … The reality is the effect it has on you. When you become the torturer, something happens to that force … it has a corrosive effect over time. You move down a path that is difficult to come back from.
A wise person once wrote, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person would die.” But the only one dying is ourselves.
Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.
Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...
As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.
Anger destroys your soul.
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
Bitterness kills the soul.
Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
