Our Quotes of the Day:
Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.
You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.
Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right as it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.
Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.
Your worst enemy is your best teacher.
We should let the full moon of God’s presence glow in our hearts to dispel darkness and clear clouds of ignorance. When we perceive all living beings as brilliant illuminant stars and God as full moon then the real beauty and love manifests in our lives.
The secret of life is in love: the love of God and the service of humanity.
See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.
I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.
Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.
Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.
Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.
Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins.
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.
