Our Quotes of the Day:
We need to do a cleansing process within ourselves. In sleep we get rid of fatigue, but the deeper stresses remain in our body. Sudarshan Kriya cleanses the system from the inside. The breath has a great secret to offer.
Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.
God cannot be realized if there is the slightest trace of pride.
If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or if the Self has any birth. He will discover that the Self always exists, that the body that is born resolves itself into thought and that the emergence of thought is the root of all mischief. Find from where thoughts emerge. Then you will be able to abide in the ever-present inmost Self and be free from the idea of birth or the fear of death.
Association with the wise, abandonment of latent impressions, self-enquiry, control of breathing — these are the means of conquering the mind.
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.
How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.
Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Having practiced Kriya, one should hold onto the After-effect-poise of Kriya.
Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.
