January 8

Christian teaching is so simple that even small children can understand its meaning. Those people cannot understand it, and only those, who want to seem and to be called Christians without being real Christians.

 

Buddha said, "A man who starts to live for his soul is like a man who brings a lantern into a dark house. The darkness disappears at once. You have to be persistent in this, and your soul will have this light."

 

Christ expressed all His teachings in His last commandment: "Love each other, as I loved you. Everyone will see that you are my disciples, if you love each other." He did not say, "If you believe," but "If you love." Faith can change with time, because our knowledge is constantly changing. Love, on the contrary, never changes; love is eternal.

 

My religion is love to all living beings.

 

In order to fulfill Christianity, we have to destroy its perversions and restore its purity

June 13

Intellect is the quality that makes us different from animals.

Buddha said: “In meditation, in speech, in life, in studies, I never forget about the most important thing: the requirements of the intellect.”

The moral and the intellectual are always in harmony.

If a self-confident man talks to a wise man, he will not understand the truth, just as a spoon will not understand the truth when it gets into the mouth.

— Eastern Wisdom

I cannot cause any improvement in anyone except with the help of the goodness and kindness which already is inherent in this person.

— Immanuel Kant

People spoil their life who neglect their intellect and say that it cannot guide them.

Intellect is the same in all people, and communication is based on intellect; therefore every man must correspond to its requirements.

June 11

All material changes in our everyday life are small in comparison with those in our spiritual life. There could be a change in feelings and actions, there could be a change in thoughts and ideas. In order to change your thoughts and ideas, you should concentrate your conscious mind on your spiritual requirements.

Every thought a person dwells upon, whether he expresses it or not, either damages or improves his life.

— Lucy Malory

To vanquish sin, you must accept that the root of each sin is in a bad thought. We are all only the consequences of what we think.

— Buddha

We regret losing a purse full of money, but a good thought which has come to us, which we’ve heard or read, a thought which we should have remembered and applied to our life, which could have improved the world — we lose this thought and promptly forget about it, and we do not regret it, though it is more precious than millions.