Our Quotes of the Day:
He who immerses himself in sexual intercourse will be assailed by premature aging, his strength will wane, his eyes will weaken, and a bad odour will emit from his mouth and his armpits, his teeth will fall out and many other maladies will afflict him.
If you develop love, you do not need to develop anything else.
Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.
Who we are looking for is who is looking.
A true devotee is one who sees the divine in all beings.
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.
A spiritual man should be a normal man, a sound man. God Himself is normal; He is not insane. In order to reach God, a spiritual person has to be divinely practical in his day-to-day activities. Spirituality does not negate the outer life. But we have to know that the outer life does not mean the animal life. The outer life should be the manifestation of the divine life within us.
There is no illness of the body except for the mind.
The seeker is that which is being sought.
We face a fundamental question which can be described as both ethical and ecological. How can accelerated development be prevented from turning against man? How can one prevent disasters that destroy the environment and threaten all forms of life, and how can the negative consequences that have already occurred be remedied?
Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe.
Grant me, O Lord, this boon, may I never refrain from righteous deeds.
Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.
It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.
Trust and trust alone should lead us to love.
No danger can perturb my spirit's calm.
The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.
With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
A time comes when meditation stirs the unconscious mind and brings forward hidden impressions. It quickens the method of analyzing, understanding, and surveying the unconscious.
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
