Our Quotes of the Day:

Things get very clear when you're cornered.

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You're not thinking about loving; you're just being love, radiating like the sun.

See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate.

You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you.

Whatever may be guru – he may be a lunatic or a common person. Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords.

I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business.

I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.

Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.

Swami cannot give peace of mind; you must work for it yourselves. First, stop the questioning and ask, 'who am I?'. This is my body, my mind, my intelligence. But who is this 'My'? Who is it that claims the ownership of that which is declared to be 'mine'? 'My' indicates ownership. That 'My' is the life. As long as the life is in the body, there is this connection between the 'my' and the intellect - 'my' body, 'my' house, 'my' land. But the moment you remove the life from the body, there is no 'my' or sense of possession. Life is God.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

Make your heart pure and perfect.