Our Quotes of the Day:
The Self is you. It is everything. It is God. That is who you really are.
If you develop love, you do not need to develop anything else.
The root cause of all suffering is desire.
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
No soul willfully does wrong.
The purpose of life is to be happy.
Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him - in other words, to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands.
In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.
Be willing to redefine yourself every day.
To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.
When the heart gets into prayer, every beat of the heart creates a miracle.
The most basic condition for happiness is freedom. Here we do not mean political freedom, but freedom from the mental formations of anger, despair, jealousy, and delusion... As long as these poisons are still in our heart, happiness cannot be possible.
Fear is nonacceptance of what is.
May your thoughts, words, and actions arise from love.
Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action.
There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.
Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.
By sincerely serving the instructions of great souls in a mood of humility, Krishna is pleased and gives us the higher taste for hearing and chanting.
If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.
All power is His and within His command.
That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
