Our Quotes of the Day:
Failures lie concealed in every success in every failure.
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.
Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.
We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls.
Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"
Even the ignorant may appear very worthy, If they keep silent before the learned.
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
Love everything and everybody as God would love: unconditionally.
Integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
Leave everything for one moment, in unending time and just be. This is the majesty of Being.
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
Times will change for the better when you change.
The ocean does not become dirty if a dog defecates in it.
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
