Our Quotes of the Day:
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
If you want your body and brain to work well, the first thing is to become joyful by your own nature.
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious which is all that this psycho-analysis of Freud seems to know, - and of that it knows only a few ill-lit corners, - is no more than a restricted and very inferior portion of the subliminal whole... to begin by opening up the lower subconscious, risking to raise up all that is foul or obscure in it, is to go out of one's way to invite trouble.
CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you. Creativity belongs to the creator, not to you. No man can ever be creative. Yes, man can compose, construct, but can never be a creator. When man disappears, when man becomes utterly absent, a new kind of presence enters his being - the presence of God. Then there is creativity. When God is inside you His light that starts falling around you is creativity. The climate that arises around you because of the presence of God within you is creativity.
It’s easy to say that you are in Maya. The real challenge is to inspire a person in such a way that he comes out of Maya.
The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.
The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.
There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
Sing songs that none have sung, think thoughts that ne'er in the brain have rung, Walk in paths that none have trod, weep tears as none have shed for God, Give peace to all to whom none other gave, Claim him your own who's everywhere disclaimed. Love all with love that none have felt and Brave the battle of life with strength unchained.
He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.
The man who does only as much as is needed will only get that much.
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.
Creation is ready to serve you, if you just be you.
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
