Our Quotes of the Day:
Serve the poor and remember God. You become one with Christ.
The Church must breathe with her two lungs!
Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
If you sleep, Desire grows in you Like a vine in the forest. Like a monkey in the forest You jump from tree to tree, Never finding the fruit - From life to life, Never finding peace. If you are filled with desire Your sorrows swell Like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire Your sorrows shall fall from you Like drops of water from a lotus flower.
Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention to your sensory impressions and be aware of those five ways that the world comes to you.
Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.
In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.
What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.
One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.
The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.
Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.
The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.
If you want to go east, don't go west.
Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases. Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters - members all of the same family - are able at last to live in peace.
Time goes from present to past.
There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.
No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.
