Our Quotes of the Day:

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering.

We are sons of God And must be even as he.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worthwhile thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight.

Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Spend some time alone every day.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship.

The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point’; The point is eternal life which is here and now.

Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won't feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

God, or Self, cannot be known through the senses. We are always engrossed in the material world with our five sense organs and we are forgetting Him.

I saw Saptarsi, seven Yogis (Bhrigu, Atri, Angira, Marichi, Pulastya, Pulaha, and Kratu; and four Manus (Sanaka, Sananda, Sanatan, and Sanat Kumar).

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.