Our Quotes of the Day:
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
Be sincere in your thoughts, be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.
If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.
For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.
Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one.
When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.
If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate...not following the thought stream...not pursuing the senses, no imagination...such an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort...then, by itself...out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come.
Those who are absorbed in Brahman become immortal.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.
There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery
Every religion teaches how to achieve calmness, the ultimate goal of all religions. This calm is possible when one is completely united with God.
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
God is at his greatest when I am at my least.
Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others.