Our Quotes of the Day:

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you, do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you.

Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all.

We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth.

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

Although I have lived through much darkness, I have seen enough evidence to be unshakably convinced that no difficulty, no fear is so great that it can completely suffocate the hope that springs eternal in the hearts of the young... Do not let that hope die! Stake your lives on it! We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.

To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

The storm thunders at my heart; I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.

I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself—out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.

Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.

If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.