#values

Let your spirit and your virtue serve the sense of the earth, my brethren: and the value of all things shall be established by you anew!

A life devoted solely to accumulation is a life lived in exile from the spirit.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor, while caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it.

A life of mere sensual indulgence makes human beings slavish in their tastes, preferring the life of grazing cattle.

The magnanimous person does not run into trifling dangers, but in great dangers he is unsparing of his life, knowing that there are terms on which life is not worth living.

Psychotherapy has too long viewed man as a creature driven by base impulses; it is time to recognize man as pulled by higher values.

To live without values is to drift without a rudder in an uncharted ocean.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolishing forms. It requires change of heart.

Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

A sword must be bought for its sharp blade, not for its ornate scabbard. Value essence above external appearances.

Do not barter your precious gems for glass beads; invest your attention in that which never perishes.

The lion roams free in the forest, while the sheep huddles in the pen; awaken your lion-heart of spiritual courage.

Do not waste your tears on lost gold; weep only for the days you lived without love and awareness.

The true pilgrim journeys not with his feet to distant rivers, but with his mind into the depths of the heart.

When you see the Divine in the beggar, the stranger, and the enemy, your spiritual pilgrimage is complete.

Do not value the worldly prize of jade and gold above the unblemished integrity of your inner nature.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.