Our Quotes of the Day:

Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.

That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every human person, especially the weak and most defenseless ones, those as yet unborn.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.

You are the Master of your own Destiny

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can't slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

This has to be your first lesson in sannyas: accept yourself, love yourself, drop all guilt, don’t divide yourself. There is nothing higher, nothing lower; all of you is divine. The lowest is as divine as the highest.

Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja.

Faith is what? Faith is to love something you have no idea about.

We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.