Our Quotes of the Day:
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.
I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves.
If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly...
What is the most auspicious quality of a spiritual seeker? Stillness, calmness. Why? The definition of restlessness is “the world.” Thus, the more one is involved and attached to the world, the more restlessness one is.
Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.
And the final reason is that the world is just a play. The saint was enjoying the play of a child, and the child was enjoying the play of a saint.
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.
Our faith can move mountains. — Matthew 17:20
My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind.
Always feel the futility of everything, then you will utilize every moment in God.
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
Eating too much, not eating, and fasting too much are obstacles for meditation.
Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.
Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. — Matthew 12:50
Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.
