Our Quotes of the Day:
Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for
The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.
Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation.
The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.
My heart is like a flower, blooming in the garden of love; Krishna is the gardener who tends to it with care.
There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.
The conviction which we must share and spread is that the call to holiness is directed to all Christians. This is not a question of privilege or of spiritual elitism. It is a question of a grace offered to all the baptized.
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
Just keep in mind the feeling 'I am', merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on the right balance of attention and affection and your mind will be firmly established in the thought-feeling 'I am'. Whatever you think, say, or do, this sense of immutable and affectionate being remains as the ever-present background of the mind.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved. – Ephesians 2:4-5
The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about. To live without understanding the purpose of life is foolish, a waste of time. The mystery of life surrounds us; we were given intelligence in order to solve it.
For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.
You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
Say the truth even if it may be bitter.
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
