Our Quotes of the Day:
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh... at all your past efforts. That which will be the day you laugh is also here and now.
After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet] has become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, a very unusual sound. I am quite free now.
When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.
The aim of all spiritual practice is love.
Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.
In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.
The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.
You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.
When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment...
Self, the internal illuminator, alone is Brahman.
Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.
Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.
One conscious breath in and out is a meditation.
Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.
We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.
The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.
Full effort is full victory.
