Our Quotes of the Day:
There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.
The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.
No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.
When the rejection of mental activities becomes continuous and automatic, you will begin to have the experience of the Self.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.
Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.
There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine.
February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. "What is taking place in America," she said, "is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another."
The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.
Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.
There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.
One who practices Pranayama, truly loves all beings.
There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.
All of you preach the message of Rupa Goswami and Raghunatha Dasa Goswami with great enthusiasm. Our supreme desire is to become the dust at the lotus feet of the followers of Sri Rupa Goswami.
The essence of spirituality does not consist in a specialised or narrow interest in some imagined part of life, but in a certain enlightened attitude to all the various situations which obtain in life. It covers and includes the whole of life. All the material things of this world can be made subservient to the divine game, and when they are thus subordained they become auxiliary to the self-affirmation of the spirit.
The source of all light is in the eye.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
