1. Love Is The Law Of Life: All love is expansion, all
selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law
of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying.
Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is law of life,
just as you breathe to live.
2. It's Your Outlook That Matters: It is our own mental
attitude, which makes the world what it is for us. Our
thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things
ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see
things in the proper light.
3. Life is Beautiful: First, believe in this world - that
there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world
is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil,
think that you do not understand it in the right light.
Throw the burden on yourselves!
4. It's The Way You Feel: Feel like Christ and you will be
a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is
feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality,
without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach
God.
5. Set Yourself Free: The moment I have realised God
sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I
stand in reverence before every human being and see God in
him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that
binds vanishes, and I am free.
6. Don't Play The Blame Game: Condemn none: if you can
stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your
hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
7. Help Others: If money helps a man to do good to others,
it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of
evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
8. Uphold Your Ideals: Our duty is to encourage every one
in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and
strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as
possible to the Truth.
9. Listen To Your Soul: You have to grow from the inside
out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There
is no other teacher but your own soul.
10. Be Yourself: The greatest religion is to be true to
your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!
11. Nothing Is Impossible: Never think there is anything
impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think
so. If there is sin, this is the only sin - to say that you
are weak, or others are weak.
12. You Have The Power: All the powers in the universe are
already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our
eyes and cry that it is dark.
13. Learn Everyday: The goal of mankind is knowledge... now
this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from
outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows',
should, in strict psychological language, be what he
'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what
he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is
a mine of infinite knowledge.
14. Be Truthful: Everything can be sacrificed for truth,
but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
15. Think Different: All differences in this world are of
degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of
everything.
