September 20

All good things can be achieved only with effort.

 

Bad things are easy to do; good things are done with work and effort.

— Dhammapada: a book of Buddhist Wisdom

 

Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by it. For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it.

— Matthew 7:13-14

 

The way to true knowledge does not go through soft grass covered with flowers. To find it, a person must climb steep mountains.

— John Ruskin

Look for the truth; it wants to be found.

— Blaise Pascal

 

A person cries out from pain when he takes up hard physical work after a period of idleness. Any rest from the struggle for spiritual improvement brings the same pain.

September 18

Life's essence lies, not in your body, but in your conscience.

 

The divine spark lives in all of us, and perpetually strives towards its origin.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

When you see that everything around you is impermanent, then you will perceive other, permanent, and eternal things.

— Dhammapada: a book of Buddhist Wisdom

 

You cannot see the soul, but only the soul can truly see the essence of things.

— The Talmud

 

I call spirit that part of man which has independent existence and gives us the understanding of life.

— Marcus Aurelius

 

Let your spiritual side guide your material side, and not the other way around. In order to improve his state, a person should strive for spiritual not physical perfection.