Our Quotes of the Day:
Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?
The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?
Victorious over the powers of Darkness and Ignorance, man becomes one with God.
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
Don't be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path.
Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore.
Violence begins with the fork.
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.
The Self cannot leave You. Awareness cannot leave You. Everything else will leave You. But Awareness is what You Are.
Aug 25, 1873 - I myself am the Aksara Purusa, the eternal Being.
Every part of the journey is of importance to the whole.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.
Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.
When by the flood of your tears, the inner and the outer have fused into One, you will find Her whom you sought with such anguish, nearer than the nearest, the very breath of life, the very core of every heart.
Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche
Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won’t even appear as a problem then.
The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.
