Our Quotes of the Day:
Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.
Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.
Once you start working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.
Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds with a view of rewarding or punishing them. ...the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding.
The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.
Action and becoming are one.
Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.
Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom is this sense of incompleteness? Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful. Now you are not so. What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss? It is the ego. Seek its source and find you are Bliss.
The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. Moreover there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.
Do everything like someone is gazing at you.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
The best ornament is humility; the best wealth is contentment.
If you face situations that you do not know how to deal with, there are many possibilities. That’s when you can really explore life.
