Our Quotes of the Day:
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
The point we emphasize is strong confidence in our original nature.
God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth - but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vital breath of his life, man compromises by making over and over again a mechanical religion of it - a handy staff to lean on in times of adversity, a soothing balm for his conscience or a tradition to be followed.
You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.
We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.
The practice of Khecharimudra brings victory over the senses.
When we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.
I have opened up an account with God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere the battering waves of poverty-thoughts.
Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider the mind as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter, are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person.
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound to remain restless. If you want peace, then the first requirement is to drop all ambition. Unless you drop ambition you cannot be at ease, at peace, you cannot be relaxed.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Pain is the outcome of sin.
Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.
Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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.
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Is there any mystery in the Vedanta, or in the Vedas, or in the Samhitas, or in the Puranas? What secret societies did the sages of yore establish to preach their religion? What sleight-of-hand tricks are there recorded as used by them to bring their grand truths to humanity?
I am a simple Buddhist monk.
Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.
The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.
Travel light, Arrive quickly.
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
