Our Quotes of the Day:
Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
For all we know, we know nothing.
A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.
If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
Come and see...place no head above your own.
Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.
I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul!
When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.
You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.
Careful vigilance and observation lead the student to study the incoming thoughts from the unconscious mind. The yogis recall all their samskaras, watch them, examine, and even select and reject them according to their need. Those thought patterns that are disturbing are rejected by the yogis, and those that are helpful are strengthened. A deep study of these three states-waking, dreaming, and sleeping-reveals that, with the help and practice of yoga nidra, one can go beyond all the levels of the unconscious.
Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.
Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.
As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
Every moment is an opportunity to receive the highest mercy if we just have the right consciousness.
If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song.
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.
Man needs now no more degrees, but character. No more study, but wisdom.
