Our Quotes of the Day:

I don't know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men. — Matthew 15:8-9

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

The only work that spiritually purifies us is that which is done without personal motives.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

As you need, so you get.

You attained this rare human birth. You have the desire for evolution. You have accepted the path of Yoga. Practise purity. Let all your perceptions be pure. Let all your thoughts be pure. Let all your activities be pure. Then you are close to the goal – self-realization is at hand.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous).

The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.

Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.