Our Quotes of the Day:

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

The spiritual seeker should not worry about who the guru is, or what the guru will do. The seeker’s first concern is getting prepared, organizing his or her life and thoughts in a spiritually healthy way, and then working toward a way of life that simplifies and purifies. At the right time, the master will be there.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you.

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.

It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this "sin" begins. This is something that must be grasped, a "sin" is something which is not necessary.

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

Tranquil Moment beyond breath is Allah, that is, the House of Tranquility.

Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty.

Conserve the vital energy, follow a balanced diet, and always smile and be happy. He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. If you feel that you can't smile, stand before a mirror and with your fingers pull your mouth into a smile. It is that important!

Doesn't the world bring forth thinking in human heads with the same necessity that it brings forth blossoms on the plant?

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.