Our Quotes of the Day:
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even an elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.
My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.
The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.
He who is constantly absorbed in discussing about Sri Hari is a saint. One who is constantly engaged in serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a saint. One who in all his endeavors tries to serve Krishna is a saint.
Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!
When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Without forgiveness, there can be no peace.
Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self-directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love & joy.
Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.
Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.
If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. — Matthew 16:24
Paravastha is the state of the real “I.” Beyond all pleasure and pain, it is the state of supreme bliss.
The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre.
Our spiritual progress depends on Service Attitude & our Sincere Chanting.
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.
The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
Ignore past failures and forge ahead.
Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.
