Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvfb17/nature_gave_me_a_thumb_up_s%C3%A4chsische_schweiz/ Effort is the necessary condition of moral perfection. Those who think that they can live a high spiritual life whose bodies are filled with idleness and luxuries are mistaken. The body is the first student of the soul. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU Nothing more can be considered as real merit for a person than …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvbvl6/paradise_meadows_strathcona_provincial_park_bc_oc/ Faith is not true faith if love is not in harmony with it. The door to heaven is opened to you to the same extent you want it. Get rid of your troubles and problems, and direct your soul to spiritual things. Be attentive, and fulfill your duty without thinking about the consequences. …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvfhhw/the_snow_covered_south_face_of_mt_st_helens_oc/ Love is the manifestation of the divine nature which exists above time. Love is not only a way of life, it is an action directed toward the goodness of others. There is no love in the future. Love can exist only in the present moment. A man who does not manifest love in …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kv9u0v/rocky_path_oc_1365x2048_slovakia_nitra/ The feeling of compassion for other living beings reminds me of the feeling of pain in our body. Just as you can become less sensitive to pain in your body with time, you can become less compassionate to others. The first condition to bringing religion into your life is manifesting love and pity …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvdc4v/a_touch_of_winter_germany_oc_3505x4907/ Really true, good, and great things are always simple. The language of truth is always simple. —LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Very often the simplest and least educated people can easily and unconsciously understand the meaning of life while the most scholarly people lack this ability, because they have been too educated to understand the …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvbsfh/california_beach_winter_sunset_32002530_oc/ People believe in eternal life because they believe that life’s beginning is spiritual, and therefore eternal. In our soul is the sign of eternity. —WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Our biggest desire is to live forever. But when we are freed from this body, we will not wish to come back. Is there such a …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvhtv0/oc_mount_olympus_salt_lake_city_utah_united/ The foundation of ancient societies was violence. The basis of our contemporary society is wise concord, the negation of violence. Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvhjvf/oc_late_afternoon_at_olmstead_point_in_yosemite/ Nothing can support idleness better than empty chatter. People would be better to keep silent and not speak the boring, empty things they routinely say to entertain themselves. How can they endure it? The person who speaks much will seldom fulfill all his words in his actions. A wise person is always wary …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kv2o5a/the_highlands_in_iceland_during_sunset_oc/ My material life is subject to suffering and death, and no effort of mine can release me from suffering or death. My spiritual life is subject neither to suffering nor death. Therefore, salvation from suffering and death lies in only one thing: in the transfer of my conscious “self” from the material to …
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPorn/comments/kvfdci/roaring_river_falls_kings_canyon_california_oc/ God’s kingdom is the fulfillment among mankind of God’s will, according to the measure in which it is revealed to us. In the life of the world, thousands of years look like one year. Therefore, we should work hard at the fulfillment of eternity, and we should wait for the day when religion …