The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Thomas Paine

Similar quotes

Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to stretch your awareness beyond the breaking point until all opposites are reconciled within yourself.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Every moment the future is becoming the present, and the present is becoming the past. The past has no possibility, it has been used.

;