Our Quotes of the Day:
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilling. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.
Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to achieve peace of mind and supreme satisfaction. Right now we are hankering after many, many things, but nothing we get satisfies us. Spirituality tells us that satisfaction can be found only if we lead a good and divine life—a life of simplicity, purity and humility.
Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.
The gruel that children's little hands have stirred is sweeter than nectar.
When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.
Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.
Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others.
If you can maintain the siege for long enough, a time will come when no more thoughts arise; or if they do, they will only be fleeting, undistracting images on the periphery of consciousness. In that thought-free state you will begin to experience yourself as consciousness, not as mind or body.
The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but rather the times which are measured or determined by arbitrarily named stellar positions. Time thus proves to be a stream of energy filled with qualities and not, as our philosophy would have it, an abstract concept or precondition of knowledge.
Enquire: 'Who am I?' and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the same Atman everywhere.
Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!
If your house is on fire, the most urgent thing to do is to go back and try to put out the fire, not to run after the person you believe to be the arsonist.
If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all.
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
As long as her hands can move a little bit and reach out to those who come to Her, Amma will continue giving darshan.
Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.
Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.
Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
The beginning is half of the whole.
