Our Quotes of the Day:
For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening.
Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.
We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.
When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause.
We are decorated with the ornaments of endless desires. They are around our necks — my neck, everyone’s neck. However, these ornaments are not visible to ordinary people, only to the wise. We have decorated ourselves with a garland of endless desires mistakenly thinking that we would be happy if we had a nice house, a nice job, and nice clothes.
Ignorance is the perception of the nonexistent, and the nonperception of the Existent.
Putting the well-being of others above your own creates a different kind of strength, a strength that will carry you through life and beyond.
There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.
We can only know to the extent that God reveals to us. Because factually, whatever we see, by the time it comes to our consciousness, it’s filtered through our contaminated mind and our bewildered ego. So what really can we know in truth? This is the condition of the soul.
I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.
Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.
The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.
Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.
My sannyasins have to be creators, not through the mind but through meditation. And it comes of its own accord, one need not even think about it. So I don't teach creativity, I only teach silence. And then out of that silence much creativity comes. One is surprised oneself at how much one was carrying in one's being, unexpressed, at how great was one's potential. When one comes across it one cannot believes it!
Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.
Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.
Regular and sincere practice brings success.
Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.
