Our Quotes of the Day:
Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper. Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity, deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other's home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true Philosopher's Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart, The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!
Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.
In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.
I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
This surrender will only take place when the 'I'-thought has ceased to identify with rising thoughts. While there are still stray thoughts which attract or evade your attentoin, the 'I'-thought will always be directing its attention outwards rather than inwards. The purpose of self-enquiry is to make the 'I'-thought move inwards, towards the Self. This will happen automatically as soon as you cease to be interested in any of your rising thoughts.
The world's thy ship and not thy home.
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind.
The sum total or Ishwara may be said to be All-good, Almighty, and Omniscient. These are obvious qualities, and need no argument to prove, from the very fact of totality.
You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life.
Being is the basis of thinking, thinking is the basis of action, action is the basis of achievement and achievement is the basis of fulfillment.
To possess more and more wealth and to accumulate more and more material objects is the natural tendency of man.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
