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And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 6

"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the world and loses his own soul?"

Matthew 24:14,

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes in all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

- 1 Corinthians Ch. 13 New American Standard Bible

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

- 5:1-12 (NIV) Often referred to as "The Beautitudes" this is the start of "The Sermon on the Mount"

Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven

- Jesus Christ 18:3-20 (KJV)

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

- o 22:37-40 (KJV)

"If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent,' forgive him."

(Luke 17:3-4) (NIV)

"We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world."

- The Buddha Dhammapada, as translated by T. Byrom (1993), Shambhala Publications.

" No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path but Buddhas clearly show the way."

- The Buddha Dhammapada Ch. 165

"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world."

- The Buddha

"From Delight we came into existence.
In Delight we grow.
At the end of our journey’s close,
Into Delight we retire."

- Upanishads

"I have known this Great Being,
effulgent as the sun
beyond the boundaries of tenebrous gloom. "

- The Upanishads

"Just as a person casts off worn-out garments
and puts on others that are new,
even so does the embodied soul cast off worn-out bodies
and take on others that are new.

- Bhagavad Gita

"I am always with all beings;
I abandon no one. And
However great your inner darkness,
You are never separate from me.

- Bhagavad Gita

I am justice: clear, impartial,
Favouring no one, hating no one.
But in those who have cured themselves
of selfishness, I shine with brilliance."

- Bhagavad Gita

Even murderers and rapists,
Tyrants, the most cruel fanatics,
Ultimately know redemption
Through my love, if they surrender

- Bhagavad Gita

All can be done
if the God-touch is there

- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri

We are sons of God
And must be even as he.

- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri

The soul in man
Is greater
Than his fate.

Man can accept his fate,
He can refuse.

Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will.

- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri

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For joy
And not for sorrow
Earth was made.

- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mohandas Gandhi

Be the change that you want to see in the world

 Mohandas Gandhi