Our Quotes of the Day:

What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.

I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.

I do not care for wealth, I do not care for fame; all I want is the love of my Lord.

Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!

Sleep in the bliss of God.

I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.

Nov 12, 1873 - I myself am Mahapurusa Purusottam, 'the great Self, the supreme Being.'

It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.

The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

Though storms may rage, my devotion to Krishna is unwavering.

I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.

Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognise your inner state of completeness and harmony.

Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you're making a choice, ask yourself if it's going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits.

Tranquility is returning to one’s nature.

Don't take yourself so personally.