Our Quotes of the Day:
Group chanting and prayer is very powerful. It can bring important changes.
When one is without ego, one becomes immediately free of all personal judgements, and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind. Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always.
If you want to know whether you are moving forward in life, just see if you are a little more joyful today than you were yesterday.
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons
Loving words and deeds are the best alms.
Christ moves along the pots and pans.
How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
For the imperishable soul, this lifetime is just a single pencil point in a long line of many lifetimes.
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. — Isaiah 40:31
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself.
In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.
I saw a blue color in the light; in the blue, I saw a white Spot (Bindu); and in the white Spot, I saw a man who manifested himself as a Hindu, English man, etc.
Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.
Breath and mind are correlated. When your mind is restless, your breath is restless. A restless mind causes pain.
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
Basically, the Buddhist attitude is that you should not accept certain things through sheer faith. And for that you need a skeptical attitude. Buddha himself made this clear to his followers. He said you should not accept those things I taught out of respect for me, but rather through investigation by yourself.
The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.
Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
