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  • The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end. Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.

    Yoga   Simple   Practice  
    "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".
  • Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

    Justice   Heaven   Deeds  
  • You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

  • The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

  • True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

    Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality”
  • Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.

    Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.84, Transaction Publishers
  • If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

    Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”
  • I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

    Love   Wisdom   Yoga  
  • All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

    Samuel Johnson (1796). “Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia ... A new edition, with engravings”, p.211
  • Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

    Love   Trust   Knowing  
    John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.9, Shambhala Publications
  • Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

    Men   Emotional   Order  
    Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

    Perfect   Body   Asana  
    "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".
  • Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

    Life   Science   Men  
    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

    Uncles   Mistake   Heart  
    "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own failing, or the most zealous benevolence reconcile him to that judgment by which they are detected; but he who endeavours only the happiness of him whom he reproves will always have either the satisfaction of obtaining or deserving kindness; if he succeeds, he benefits his friend; and if he fails, he has at least the consciousness that he suffers for only doing well.

    Kindness   Men   Advice  
    Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.74
  • Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

    Nature   Ambition   Clubs  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.151, Penguin
  • [T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich; I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.

    Flower   Men   Climbing  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2183, Library of Alexandria
  • It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

    Bible   Jesus   Blessed  
  • My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

    Wise   Wisdom   Virtue  
  • I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

  • Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

  • Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  • We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

  • Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress

    Spring   Heart   Eye  
  • These eyes see the incredible benevolence of the universe, which is completely trustworthy in all respects. There is nothing to fear. Everything in each moment is so well taken care of - and always has been.

    Taken   Eye   Care  
  • Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , in which the pursuit of profit is tempered at every juncture by sympathy and benevolence, and by the posture of the "impartial spectator" which is forced on us by our moral nature.

    "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
  • The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages; and it is doubtless our paramount duty, in every state of society, to alleviate the pressure of the purely evil part of this distribution, as much as possible, and, by all the means we can devise, secure the lower links in the chain of society from dragging in dishonor and wretchedness.

    Mean   Differences   Evil  
  • Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

    Death   Fear   Pride  
    Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.211
  • Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.

    Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”
  • When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
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