Our Quotes of the Day:
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Prayer without heart is a waste of time.
If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.
When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.
Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child. They don't treat the child as an equal. The fact that you temporarily know more, or you're bigger does not mean the child is not your equal.
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
The fruit of Silence is Prayer
Infinite strength is religion and God.
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.
Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.
Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.
Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together.
Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.
Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.
Laughter is the language of the heart.
If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.
Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief.
I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.
Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.