Our Quotes of the Day:
Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.
In a small affair or in a big affair, first consult yourself and find out if there is any conflict in your own being about anything you want to do. And when you find no conflict there, then feel sure that a path is already made for you. You have but to open your eyes and take a step forward, and the other step will be led by God.
Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!
Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual.
Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?
The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.
What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne.
When we are inadequate ourselves but our ego is strong, we tend to blame others.
One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.
There's great release, really, in not seeing into the future.
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.
It is the power of God that is working through you. Kriya Yoga teaches you to remember the soul in every activity.
If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients.
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.
The teaching of the Yoga-Vasishtha emphasises that when there is perception of an object by the seer or observer, there has to be pre-supposed the existence of a consciousness between the subject and the object. If this conscious connecting link were not to be, there would be no perception of existence. There cannot be a consciousness of relation between two things unless there is a consciousness relating the two terms and yet standing above them. The study of the perceptional situation discloses the fact that the subject and the object are phases of a universal consciousness.
Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
I do not want to carry any public position.
