Our Quotes of the Day:

Everything good and bad comes from your own mind. To find something beyond the mind is impossible.

Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow — even today I am still arriving.

Full effort is full victory.

Whatever work we do, our mind should be centered on God.

Vedanta is a vast, vast literature. It’s an ancient tradition, 5000 years back to the Upanishads. And, yet you can describe Advaita Vedanta in one sentence: Tat Tvam Asi (That Thou Art) … ‘That’ meaning that which is worshipped as God, the reality behind this universe. ‘Thou’ meaning you the individual. You and that are the same thing … We investigate these two polarities … The analysis into who am I or what am I, and an analysis into what is God. Then you come to a synthesis: seeing that what is the reality beyond God and beyond individual.

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

I take the dust from the lotus feet of the guru to cleanse the mirror of my mind. So begins a sacred ode to Hanuman.

I always keep my disciples under my guard.

Love is not to be possessed but to be shared.

Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Live joyfully, without desire.

Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.

Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.