Zoroaster Quotes


All flows out from the Deity and all must be absorbed in Him again.

When you are in doubt abstain.

In doubt if an action is just abstain.

When we are in doubt whether an action is good or bad abstain from it.

With an open mind seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path person by person each for oneself.

Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

Suffer no anxiety for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit and contraction happens to his body and soul.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)

A reflective contented mind is the best possession.

Form no covetous desire so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy for it increases your own health and happiness.

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.

In the beginning there were two primal spirits Twins spontaneously active These are the Good and the Evil in thought and in word and in deed.

He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power He who upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed He indeed is Thy most valued helper O Mazda Ahura!

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought Good Word and Good Deed.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

Devotion like fire goeth upward.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous and produce nearly the same effect.

Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come...

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!

Let us be such as help the life of the future.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.

Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone and the wisest man needs advice.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

Now the two primal Spirits who reveal themselves in vision as Twins are the Better and the Bad in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

If one would have a friend then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war one must be capable of being an enemy.