Our Quotes of the Day:
There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.
My whole life, I never spoke a single word.
Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
The problems in the world were made so that you don’t get stuck and attached to this world. You get stuck with this world even though there are so many problems. Imagine if there are no problems, then you will never want to leave this material world!
Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.
You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.
You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and also this void. In the story of the tenth man, when each of them counted and thought they were only nine, each one forgetting to count himself, there is a stage when they think one is missing and do not know who it is; and that corresponds to the void. We are so accustomed to the notion that all that we see around us is permanent and that we are this body, that when all this ceases to exist we imagine and fear that we also have ceased to exist.
Life is here to Enjoy!
The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.
If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life
No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.
You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.
When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises.
But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.
