Our Quotes of the Day:
Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.
Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.
All the conflicts in this world are simply born of people whose propensity to love is frustrated to different degrees.
Love and hate are two sides of the same coin. Any moment, it can flip the other way. One can become the other.
To harm another is to harm oneself.
The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.
What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.
Luxury is experiencing reality
The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.
Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.
Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God's reality, the more you give of yourself—in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love—the more you will be given.
If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.
The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.
The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
Love the Lord your God will all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. — Matthew 22:37
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.