Our Quotes of the Day:

You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.

So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower, it noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas, he has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

We're all just walking each other home.

In our daily life, a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed.

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process.

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.

At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

Another qualification of success is that we not only bring harmonious and beneficial results to ourselves, but also share those benefits with others.

Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.

The Family that prays together, stays together.

I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.

Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

Do to others what you would have them do to you. — Matthew 7:12

Happiness is within. Joy is within. Love is within. The kingdom of heaven is within. But we are searching outside.

Travel light, Arrive quickly.

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?

The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed 'Ishvara' or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state.

The basis of all problems of economics, according to the greatest authorities in the subject is unlimited people with unlimited desires to enjoy the limited resources.

Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.

It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.