Our Quotes of the Day:
What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
If you are having trouble with your enthusiasm for sadhana, just tell yourself, 'I may be dead in seven days'. Let go of all the things that you pretend are important in your daily life and instead focus on the Self for twenty-four hours a day. Do it and see what happens.
The greatness of work is inside man.
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.
Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Your mind is the natural environment for spiritual progress.
I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.
Luxury is experiencing reality
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
Sathya, Dharma, Shanghai and prema are the hall-marks of a purified heart, a heart where God is enshrined and is manifest.
Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.
My heart is like a flower, blooming in the garden of love; Krishna is the gardener who tends to it with care.
A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.
The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul.
Fill your mind with compassion.
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
All things in moderation, including moderation.
For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal.
Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.
Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.
