Our Quotes of the Day:
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.
My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.
The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.
Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. More than this nature cannot do. It has done enough. It has given you life, it has given you opportunity; now how to use it, it has left up to you. Meditation is your freedom, not a biological necessity. You can learn in a certain period of time every day to strengthen meditation, to make it stronger - but carry the flavor of it the whole day.
Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.
He who is kind to animals heaven will protect.
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
If you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.
Faith induces one to pray. Prayer purifies the heart. In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord. When the Light shines, the mortal becomes immortal.
Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.
Coming together is the beginning. Working together is progress. Living together is success.
You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
Real happiness lies within you.
Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
Always watch the guru who resides within, and who is constantly guiding and inspiring you.
In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'
