Our Quotes of the Day:

You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God.

How can anyone be called human, if being born a human being and growing in a human society, he does not recognise human values? You must see that you don't harm any living being. He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.

There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings you new songs, it brings you new dances. It brings you the truth, and the immersion of you into the truth.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

It is better to travel well than arrive.

In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.

Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

You wake up each day from the dream; but to be free, you must also wake up from the waking state.

You have been an apprentice long enough; it is now time to shed your protective skin. Trust!

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal, the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existence.

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love.

Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

Of the three paths – Jnana (knowledge), karma (action), or bhakti (devotion), a sadhaka should choose one which suits one’s nature. Not one of these paths is superior or inferior to the others. It is sheer ignorance to consider one’s own path to be superior and those of others to be inferior.

The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

The first wealth is health.

I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it.

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful.