Our Quotes of the Day:
Happiness depends on ourselves.
If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.
Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Compassion is concern of others' well-being.
When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.
Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.
If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.
Whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven. — Matthew 10:33
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
If you face situations that you do not know how to deal with, there are many possibilities. That’s when you can really explore life.
Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
Patience is a great virtue that needs to be cultivated. One should always pay attention to one’s determination, sincere efforts, patience, regularity, and loving nature. Always try to be vigilant, so that the opposite forces do not take over.
We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God.
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.
Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being...It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.
Yoga is known as Brahmavidya (knowledge of the supreme spirit). This great knowledge is ancient and extremely difficult to attain. For its accomplishment, many lifetimes are required. If it were evaluated objectively, it would be defined as the supreme religion, the global religion, the universal religion, the human religion or the eternal religion.
Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action is He, the One Himself. While attending to your work with your hands, keep yourself bound to Him by sustaining japa, the constant remembrance of Him in your heart and mind. In God's empire, it is forgetfulness of Him that is detrimental. The way to Peace lies in the remembrance of Him and of Him alone.
Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.
Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
