Our Quotes of the Day:

The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

The place you are looking for is the place from which you are looking.

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me”

She is more Mother than Queen.

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above.

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

When the breath is calm, as when you are only listening, your mind is calm. Transformation of your breath is the easiest way to calm your mind and life.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

The path of devotion is the path of self-realization.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.

Learn to be spiritual in your daily life by doing selfless action. Learn to meditate every day, a few minutes.

...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.