Our Quotes of the Day:
Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors faults; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?
Hold firmly to your word.
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.
Spellbound and motionless, the advocate could scarcely believe what he was seeing, because the man he was looking at actually had the head of a snake. Although we may look like human beings, we may not be human beings.
Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you.
Substitute positive thoughts for negative ones.
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.
To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.
Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.
Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!
Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine
The Vedas declare that whatever is seen in the Cosmos can also be seen inside the human body.
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.
The one who surrenders everything to the divine finds true peace.
Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
The spiritual journey of Vedanta is not a journey in space. It’s not a journey from one place to another … Vedanta is not a journey in time. You are not waiting for something to happen … Vedanta is not there. It’s not then. It’s here and now.
