Our Quotes of the Day:
Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.
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.
The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be worthy of the attention of the Creator; how, then, should other living creatures be considered as proper objects for Divine Providence!
Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul!
We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical... We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.
The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.
My life is my message.
The wise, of even mind, renounce the fruit of action. Freed from the fetters of birth, they attain the state that is beyond all evil.
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all else will be added unto you. (Holy Bible)
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature.
The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.
The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment...