Our Quotes of the Day:
Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should follow our Conscience.
It is not wrong to be an ignorant; it is an error to continue to be an ignorant.
The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.
Things that are real are given and received in silence.
There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
The best of knowledge comes through revelation, not through the mind. It is a flood of knowledge that overwhelms the whole being.
Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.
Inner life is Divine.
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for
Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.
Unfortunately, you cannot do away with mental unrest by meditating for a day or a month; you must make regular and untiring efforts for many years. As the sadhaka (one who practices meditation) goes on eliminating and removing the causes of mental unrest, states of mental peace are generated. When the sadhaka attains higher states of meditation, streams of peace start flowing into the sadhaka’s mind, generating such qualities as modesty, enthusiasm, courage and patience. Subsequently the sadhaka becomes addicted to meditation.
What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
