Our Quotes of the Day:

If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Whatever Krishna does with us is to increase our quality of love for him.

Real spiritual experience is to see the unity in diversity.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

You are what you repeatedly do.

Your duty is to pray for the welfare of the world and to work for it as far as it lies in your power.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

Man is the greatest being that ever can be.

Any act in the name of God returns 10 fold.

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.

What delusion, what sorrow, can there be for him who beholds that oneness [of the jiva and Brahman]?

In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you are boiling within.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.