Our Quotes of the Day:
The earth is not just our environment. The earth is our mother.
This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.
Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.
Although He is formless, God said He made us in His image. We live as form, but the body has a formless counterpart. Behind this visible body there is the presence of the invisible soul.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. — Matthew 6:33
Love the poor. Serve them. Give everything to the poor, even your clothing. Give it all away. Jesus gave away all, including His body.
Speak the truth even if it leads to your own downfall.
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.
If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.
Inspire all to do sadhana.
On love, not harming others, and respecting all beings. Even animals have these elements in their behavioral patterns. We should start by observing how animals act. They are honest and appreciate it when we are honest with them. If you present something nice to an animal in one hand while hiding a rope in the other, the creature will know your intention. Yet animals have no religion, no constitution. Basic nature has endowed them with the faculty of discernment. It is the same for humans.
Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?
We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.
