Our Quotes of the Day:
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.
Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.
Just as you filter water, have a working knowledge of Gurus.
People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil.
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
Reading spiritual books, hearing so many discourses, seeing so many monks and chanting many verses of the scriptures cannot give you spirituality and Self-realization. It only helps to show the way of spirituality. Practice is the Key.
The final bridge to cross is to let go of the mind-created 'spiritual' self. Burn that bridge behind you. Stay empty of self-image and cease looking back. Remain in the neutrality of being. That's it!
You should not talk about your wealth, wife, or sadhana or they will go away.
In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.
Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.
People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.
I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained.
Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.
If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.
Be not the slave of your own past.
If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.
The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.
