Our Quotes of the Day:
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange.
Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.
Meditation is to go beyond all thoughts.
Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.
What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.
Lamps are different, but light is the same.
Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest.
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation
If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world.
All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.
War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.
Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with total relaxedness, in a let go, in an opening of your being. You listen, not to know, you simply listen to understand.
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
Our strength grows out of our weakness.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.
If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.
