Our Quotes of the Day:
The highest prayer is the prayer to become a selfless instrument in God’s hands.
Let the questions be the curriculum.
Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there.
What is the purpose of life? To elevate all, big or small.
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
My advice is, do not criticize others. Try to rectify yourself.
Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle are of the mind.
Do not gloat over the pain of others; sooner or later you will also taste suffering.
One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.
The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.
When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was God's wish.
We should learn to love everyone equally, because in essence we are all one, one Atman, one soul.
All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.
If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.
You are happiness personified.
There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.
Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.
What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
