Our Quotes of the Day:
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Every failure contains a seed of success.
Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
First, the human mind should be harmonized, then the harmony of Nature will spontaneously take place.
We can choose how to live our lives now. We can seize any moment and begin anew.
We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intentions.
He who perceives the Self everywhere never shrinks from anything, because through his higher consciousness he feels united with all life. When a man sees God in all beings and all beings in God, and also God dwelling in his own Soul, how can he hate any living thing? Grief and delusion rest upon a belief in diversity, which leads to competition and all forms of selfishness. With the realization of oneness, the sense of diversity vanishes and the cause of misery is removed.
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.
It’s not that you are peaceful; you are peace itself.
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age.
Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being - that of ecstasy; and out of ecstasy, whatever is created has also some flavor of it.
Death fosters life that life may suckle death.
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. Always do what you are afraid to do.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.
