Our Quotes of the Day:

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Aug 22, 1873 - I myself am Adi Purusa Bhagavan, the first Lord.

Perfect love means putting up with other people's shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.

Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

The guru must know everything about you.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

What have I to forgive and whom?

If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.

When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

If you want oneness in society, you have to teach people to go inside instead of going outside, because if they want peace, they need to find it within.

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Can everybody contact the higher forces? No, not indeed; but they submit themselves to a discipline and this brings them success.

Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.

The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.

The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.