Our Quotes of the Day:
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Discipline is creating the situation.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. — 1 John 4:8
Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering.
The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright.
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.
Humanness consists in harmony of thought, word and deed.
The highest form of service is to help a person who is incapable of thanking in return.
You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.
There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.
One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.
Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make people's lives very rich. If the commune owns the money, the commune can give you all the facilities that you need, all the education, all creative dimensions of life.
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
