Our Quotes of the Day:
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.
Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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.
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.
With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.
Patience, ceaseless efforts, and strong determination make everything possible.
To breathe and know you are alive is wonderful. Because you are alive, everything is possible.
The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.
Love is not something that you do. Love is something that you are.
Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss.
The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.
If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals, or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.
Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.
The greatness of work is inside man.
Your body is a little universe, and God is residing in that little universe. Search for that power of God. He dwells within you.
Fortune favours the bold.
Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.
The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.
Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
