Our Quotes of the Day:
As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You're not thinking about loving; you're just being love, radiating like the sun.
Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
Thought and God are one.
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.
As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body.
All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul.
Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves.
He was one with all beings and He had great love for all in the world. He was one with God.
According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.
Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.
Live joyfully, without desire.
It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.
Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance
The reason I have great misfortune is that I have the self. If I have no self - What misfortune do I have?
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social commitments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.
Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.
When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home.
Good luck and good timing are the same thing.
Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.