Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.

The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation.

It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

We all have spirits present with us who are feeling the way we are.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.

Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.

Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism