Our Quotes of the Day:
Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. — Proverbs 13:20
Remember that the only constant in life is change.
You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.
The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.
It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required.
I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.
He who thus knows this Upanishad shakes off all sins and becomes firmly established in the infinite and the highest Heaven.
Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved.
All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the “conquest”
I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the only reason I took birth was to see that righteousness may flourish, that good may live, and tyrants be torn out by their roots.
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
Don't think about the past. Just be here now.
Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.
Those who know contentment are wealthy.
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.