Our Quotes of the Day:
Meditation is a state of no-mind! You cannot find meditation through the mind, because the mind will perpetuate itself! You can find meditation only by putting the mind aside, by being cool, indifferent, unidentified with the mind.
When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves.
Don't get attached to anything.
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.
ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.
It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".
If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.
Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hair matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.
There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.
There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.
Earth and heaven are in us.
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
Give up all bad qualities in you, banish the ego and develop the spirit of surrender. You will then experience Bliss.
Whatever happens to you, you can either see it as a curse and suffer it, or you can see it as a blessing and make use of it.
When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speak these words as their own, the words become meaningless.
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.
To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.
Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.
