Sublime

You can only improve life in yourself by destroying the barriers that divide your life from that of others, and by considering others as yourself, and loving them. By so doing you increase your share of life.

Enlightenment, he maintains, comes not through learning and knowledge, but by living a life of simplicity and truth, by avoiding the exploitation of animals and the eating of meat, by loving one’s neighbour, by adopting a policy of non-resistance to evil and by condemning the futility, immorality and evil of war.

The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone.

You should love only one thing in yourself, that which is the same in all of us.

Put at least half of your energy into making yourself free of empty wishes, and very soon you will see that in so doing you will receive much greater fulfillment and happiness. —After EPICTETUS

'No,' said the imp, 'that was not the way I did it. All I did was to see that the peasant had more corn than he needed. The blood of the beasts is always in man; but as long as he has only enough corn for his needs, it is kept in bounds.

Society can be improved only by self-sacrifice. Heaven and earth are eternal. They are eternal because they do not exist for themselves. In the same way, a truly holy person does not live for himself, and therefore he can become eternal, and can achieve anything. —LAO-TZU