Acknowledging one's own limits and not placing oneself above others.
The weight says how heavily the value counts in the texts of a tradition. The share beside it says how widespread it is. Rows drawn faintly rest on fewer than five texts; they say something about those texts, nothing yet about the tradition.
These sentences come from sermons and addresses that know nothing of each other. They are set alternately by tradition so that how close they come is visible.
O demütiger Mensch, willst du das ewige Leben finden? Bewahre den Glauben und die Demut in dir; denn durch diese findest du die Barmherzigkeit und die Hilfe Gottes
Nach buddhistischer Sicht entsteht Leiden nicht durch das Altern selbst, sondern durch das Anhaften und den inneren Widerstand.
Indem du dich so ganz Gott hingibst, indem du dir bewusst bist, du bist nur Instrument Gottes, kannst du höchsten Frieden finden.
Das Leid, das in uns aufkommt, liegt nicht in den Worten, Handlungen oder Blicken anderer, sondern in unserem eigenen Herzen.
Nicht nach einem Anspruch streben, nicht nach Verunreinigungen suchen.
Manchmal führt Gott uns aus einer Situation heraus, in der wir uns eigentlich wohlfühlen. Manchmal heißt fröhlich mit Jesus weiterleben, dass Gott Menschen im Blick hat, die ich noch nicht sehe.
Ich bin nur ein Mann wie ihr. Auch wenn man den Stoff abwürgt und dazu gab, der Heilige Prophet kaufte den Stoff von ihm ab.
I began to appreciate a distinction: A limitation in a person's approach does not necessarily indicate a limitation in their intention.
Nicht uns, o Herr, nicht uns, sondern deinem Namen gebt die Ehre.
When I bow before God, I stand upright in the world. When I lay my limits before God in prayer, I straighten up and go on, strengthened.
It is not merely a stringing together of worldly wishes, but rather the most beautiful expression of the fact that the servant recognizes his own weakness, need, and helplessness and seeks refuge in Allah's infinite mercy, grace, and omnipotence.
The Buddhist teaching is such that we immediately feel better when we apply the teaching.
Act as if everything has already been answered. Then act with tireless, ceaseless energy. And while you act, you yourself become a magnet that draws more power into your being, until you become an unobstructed channel through which divine power flows.
One should therefore approach the Eternal in modesty and with an awareness of one's own limitations.
The only way to save the world is to start with ourselves. Our task after the terrorist attacks is to renew the moral foundations of freedom.
My mind has been pierced by the Merciful One, o my Mother. Who can know the pain of another? I do not think of anyone else.
Honouring an older Muslim is in truth an act of honouring and glorifying God, the Almighty and Exalted.
Because he disparaged the Hindu New Year festival, a Swiss tourist on Bali has to spend a year in prison.
Human reason, so Kant, has the peculiar fate of being pressed by questions that it necessarily poses to itself, but which it can neither answer definitively nor simply dismiss.
Elon Musk's name will be cursed – the richest person in the history of humankind, who used his wealth and power to kill the most vulnerable people on the planet.
Ohne die Mönche wäre das Christentum in der Welt verschwunden!
To be humanly great therefore does not mean, from a Buddhist perspective, to become greater than others. It means to grow beyond yourself. To become more patient, more compassionate, more mindful, and wiser.
In allem das Wirken Gottes zu sehen. Nimm es leicht humorvoll und vielleicht sogar leicht amüsiert zur Kenntnis, wie Gott zu dir spricht.
Also, es wird vielleicht nicht ganz Singapur sein, wohin du morgen gehst, aber vielleicht, wohin auch immer du gehst, mein Vorschlag wäre, dass es ein sehr guter Ort für Dharma-Praxis ist.
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