Our Quotes of the Day:
Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.
In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
The hardest thing in the world is to train one's own mind.
Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
Make your lives intensely Eucharistic.
We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.
Childhood is the foundation stone upon which stands the whole life structure. The seed sown in childhood blossoms into the tree of life. The education which is imparted in childhood is more important than the education which is received in colleges and universities. In the process of human growth, proper guidance along with environmental learning is important.
In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted, and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.
Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.
Do not crave to know more and more, rather practice to get perfection and through the instruction of the guru, eventually, everything will become clear.
If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve.
Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
Listen to me, my friend. My beloved Lord is within me; I am dissolved in His love.
The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.... We discover it by being earnest, by searching, enquiring, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one's life to this discovery.
When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.
