Our Quotes of the Day:
My work is to bring clarity. Once you clearly see that the whole universe is one, everything about you and your relationship with existence will change.
Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.
Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to still the mind and cause it to become aware of its true relationship to the Self which supports it. Do not imagine that it is you who are doing the work. Think that is the underlying current which is doing it. Identify yourself with the current.
From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.
Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.
We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose.
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.
The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations.
What have I to forgive and whom?
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.
Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
There can be conscious revolution.
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Live life as if it’s rigged in your favor.
All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.
God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.
The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.
If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace floods me. For I have the Host as my support. When I draw near the ciborium, All my sighs are heard... To be nothing is my glory. I am the atom of Jesus.
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
