Our Quotes of the Day:
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.
If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.”
To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything that exists. Aim at the whole and all your actions will be whole.
Peace is my God.
The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.
All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help.
The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything.
The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.
Failures lie concealed in every success in every failure.
Every human being in the human form has limitations.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.
That which comes slow comes solid.
The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct.
The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.
I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life.
What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.
Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.
“This body is pre-thought, pre-planned.” Before we are born into this world we plan our bodies. We decide what kind of body we want. But we do not remember this; we have forgotten. We also decide where to be born; it is our plan, nobody else’s. The same holds true for the kind of life we want to live. When we travel, we decide where to go. When we go on a trip, we arrange many things. Similarly, when we travel to earth we arrange and prepare our bodies, our families, what kind of life we will have; it was all our doing. That is why it is said, ittham prakalpite dehe: “In this body that was preplanned by you.” Thus, we need not be unhappy with our bodies. Why? We receive what we wanted. We receive the body we desired. If we want to experience freedom we have to cherish this desire in us. Ittham prakalpite dehe: “This body is our thought, our creation.”
It is important to pray for peace... But you must also take actions to make that happen. Every single day.
