Our Quotes of the Day:
Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.
The purpose of disturbances in our life is to break us from our complacency, to give us a sense of really needing to dive deeper into the constant current of truth that is steady and peaceful.
You should utilize money for noble purposes.
When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.
By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
If one of the brothers, being able to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire a share of the family property, he may be made separate by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.
The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.
Remember yourself always and everywhere.
If you are followers of truth, try to establish love in your home. Try to love one another and serve one another. Life is difficult. We need help and this should start in the family. If you can do that much, you will be followers of Sanatan Dharma.
What we speak becomes the house we live in.
Meditation is like giving a hug to ourselves, getting in touch with that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
How do we fight back? By creating art.
Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Everything changes and nothing remains still.
The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.
Faith alone is the sun of life.
It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worthwhile thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.
Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.
This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
Service does not mean I do what I want, when I want. Service means whatever makes Krishna happy.
