Our Quotes of the Day:
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
Seek the Path, do not seek attainment, Seek for the Path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, or read it in books. Look for the truth in yourself, not without yourself.
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss.
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
The fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind.
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.
All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different.
The man who does only as much as is needed will only get that much.
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
Absorb ourselves in the supreme of all prayers, the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, fix our mind begging for service and begging for the power to please the Lord by our service, because in essence the success of our service is how we please Krishna.
Apart from thoughts, there is no independent entity called the world. In deep sleep there are no thoughts, and there is no world. In the states of waking and dream, there are thoughts, and there is a world also. Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and again withdraws it into itself, likewise the mind projects the world out of itself and again resolves it into itself.
This is the state of a wise one: seeing but not looking; eating but not tasting; touching but not feeling. The senses are working, but there is no attachment to them.
Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.
Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
Practice Kriya as long as possible sitting in one asana at least once a day.
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
