Our Quotes of the Day:
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.
God is the only reality; all the rest is a dream.
After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.
If your house is on fire, the most urgent thing to do is to go back and try to put out the fire, not to run after the person you believe to be the arsonist.
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Come in, my dear, from that harsh world that has rained elements of stone upon your tender face. Every soul should receive a toast from us for bravery!
Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.
The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.
As long as the mind is outward, only ida and pingala remain active. But when the mind is calm and tranquil, sushumna, the central channel, is awakened. The joy derived from the mind traveling through the sushumna channel is unique; it cannot be compared with any sensory pleasure. Because of that inner joy, the mind loses its taste for worldly pleasures.
Silence gives answers.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Hands are the heart's landscape.
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.
Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice...
The world is an appearance … You are real. But, you are real as the Absolute.
That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
