Our Quotes of the Day:
Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.
Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.
Time flows away like the water in the river.
We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.
The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.
Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious.
Self, the internal illuminator, alone is Brahman.
Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what is possible.
I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.
Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, it’s possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. This is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves.
Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love.
The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.
If you depend on God's grace, there is no such thing as impossible.
It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.
As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You're not thinking about loving; you're just being love, radiating like the sun.
Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment.
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.
