Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Love life more than the meaning of it?

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima