Our Quotes of the Day:
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.
Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
The measure of love is to love without measuring.
Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
Your greatest strength is love. Your greatest weakness is fear.
In Hinduism, the concept of creation, beauty, and power is intricately woven into the symbolism of the dance of Shiva and Shakti. Shiva represents the masculine principle, often depicted as the god of destruction and transformation, while Shakti embodies the feminine principle, symbolizing primordial energy and creativity. Together, their dance symbolizes the interplay between consciousness (Shiva) and energy (Shakti) that drives the process of creation, preservation, and destruction in the universe.
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?
The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion. But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end.
True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.
He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
The past has no power over the present moment.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.
When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?
Sleep is the best meditation.
God is even kinder than you think.
Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.
The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.
