Our Quotes of the Day:
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However sacred...
It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'... It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform.
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you...
I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there
You cannot stand tall emotionally when you are always at the receiving end.
The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins.
In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
Dada, do not get angry - this is samsara, this is samsara. You are worried about my food, but they do not bother about it. Nobody comes to me for my own needs. Everyone is busy with himself.
Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.
God gives where he finds empty hands.
There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
