Our Quotes of the Day:
In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring food, clothing nonstop to our home for the dying. This is an act of love. I didn't ask them. They have only heard about what I am doing and they all come.
A saint is a sinner who never gave up.
When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.
Just think you are the greatest. Where's the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.
Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!
In each of us there is another whom we do not know.
There is only one real book to study and learn from—the greatest of all books—and that is the very manuscript that you, yourself, are.
I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.
Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on the planet. Children will develop an ego and quickly outgrow it. That's very different from developing an ego and being stuck with it for the rest of your life.
The darkest night is ignorance.
The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.
I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not fault with others.
True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.
An honest man is always a child.
We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.
To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.
Death is the greatest illusion of all.
Apart from the Office [the daily prayer of the Church] which is a daily joy, I do not have the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers. ... Unable either to say them all or to choose between them, I do as a child would who cannot read - I just say what I want to say to God, quite simply, and he never fails to understand.
I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple." I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
