Our Quotes of the Day:
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
A moment's truth can and shall make the world beautiful. A moment's peace can and shall save the world. A moment's love can and shall make the world perfect.
Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.
Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love. That is the way to God.
God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is.
Do not speak - unless it improves on silence.
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?
Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.
Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.
When one comes to the essence of being, the shining wisdom of reality illumines all like the cloudless sky.
In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.' That is the crushing. ... It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Nov 12, 1873 - I myself am Mahapurusa Purusottam, 'the great Self, the supreme Being.'
A really successful person is one who sees a positive opportunity in every situation in life. Even in the darkest tragedies and traumas, there must be something to learn, some wisdom, some growth, some opportunity.
I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
If we have been able to give happiness to a soul—even for a minute—it makes our life blessed.
Let me tell you how to love all equally. Do not demand anything of those you love. If you make demands, some will give you more and some less. In that case you will love more those who give you more and less those who give you less. Thus your love will not be the same for all. You will not be able to love all impartially.
