Our Quotes of the Day:
Fear gone, there can be no hatred.
Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again, all foolish blunders, all silly mistakes, all loss of time and opportunity - everything will be repeated with the exception of the chance you had this time, because chance never comes in the same form. You will have to look for your chance next time. And in order to do this, you will have to remember many things, and how will you remember then if you do not remember anything now?
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.
Out of the formless the forms appear.
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Be creative in that sense and your creativity will become an offering to God. God has given you so many gifts, Garima; something HAS to be done just in deep thankfulness. But remember: with no motive, not as a means but as an end unto itself. Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake, and prayer for prayer's sake.
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.
Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
Ignorance is the root cause of all suffering.
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time.
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.
Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.
Without atmosphere, air, there is no creation. As breath is life, to love breath is to love all the living creation.
If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
Every wall is a door.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
An honest man is always a child.
Once you have linked yourself with love, a flood of inspiration is revealed to you, whatever the subject, whatever the problem in life may be. Whatever it be that your eye casts its glance upon, it will disclose itself. Then you are on the real road, and what a joy this is!
