Our Quotes of the Day:
Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us.
God made cows and animals with their spines parallel to the ground. They have no rationality. Your spine is vertical, which enables you to evolve and grow faster.
You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.
Seek your happiness in the happiness of all.
Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.
Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.
Worrying is betting against yourself.
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
By reflection, reasoning and instructions of teachers, the truth is known. Not by ablutions, not by making donations, nor by performing hundreds of breath control exercises.
Violence, even in thought, leads to fear and weakness.
If you're laughing, you're healing.
Once gone, time never returns.
The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
You can't get wet from the word 'water.'
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.
The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.