Our Quotes of the Day:
A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.
Our spiritual progress depends on Service Attitude & our Sincere Chanting.
Those who praise themselves have no merit, those who boast do not last.
Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above, but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being.
When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.
Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!
Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.
The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.
God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.
If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.
By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.
I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.
Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.
It's the coward who says, 'This is fate'... It's the strong who stands up & says 'I will make my fate'
We began by imagining that we are giving to them; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.
