Our Quotes of the Day:
When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.
As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.
The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don’t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody else; you are not expected to do something which doesn’t belong to you - you are just to be yourself. Relax! and just be yourself. Be respectful to your individuality. and have the courage to sign your own signature. Don’t go on copying others signatures.
To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.
When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.
The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing—just a tranquilizer. It helps, but it is good for sleep, not for meditation. You can sleep well, a more calm sleep will be there. It is good, but it is not meditation at all. If you repeat a word constantly it creates a certain boredom, and boredom is good for sleep.
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.
It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propagated in the right manner that we have today many divisions leading to many conflicts.
If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.
Nothing spiritual can really be understood in truth without the mercy of the Lord. We cannot grasp Krishna by our intelligence, memory or any of our material talents or attributes. We use all these things in His service.
For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.
I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn’t know how to deal with it. It felt like the world was changing its relationship with me but I had stayed the same.
If all your energies are focused in one direction, enlightenment is not far away. After all, what you are seeking is already within you.
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.
Life's a song, sing it
To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.
Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.
Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?