Our Quotes of the Day:
Attachment comes only where we expect a return.
Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human beings have a vital need for time and inner quiet to ponder and examine life and its mysteries... Understanding and wisdom are the fruit of a contemplative eye upon the world, and do not come from a mere accumulation of facts, no matter how interesting.
Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself.
Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.
Don't worry about the situation of the world. You must be very happy, very very happy! Only through happiness and waves of bliss you will be able to help your country and the entire world in an automatic manner. You will remain ever invincible when you don't allow anything to obscure your happiness.
We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it.
See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
As you may enjoy being swept away by the one you truly love, the bhakti texts tell us that the Supreme enjoys being overwhelmed by the love of each of His pure-hearted devotees.
Work for this world as if you will live forever and work for the hereafter as if you will die tomorrow.
Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.
If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.
How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.
What you think you become.
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.
We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with new hearts, to be born again. We need a nucleus of men in whom the Shakti is developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the personality and overflows to fertilise the earth. These, having the fire of Bhawani in their hearts and brains, will go forth and carry the flame to every nook and cranny of our land.
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.