Our Quotes of the Day:
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.
Be that which you really are; don’t pretend to be what you are not.
A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond anger. It can try, but it can never go beyond. A split personality can never go beyond sex. It can fight. So many monks in the monasteries are doing it. They don't go beyond sex; at the most their sexuality becomes perverted, their love becomes poisoned.
People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.
Once you turn your focus inward, the process of transformation will begin; then you will become aware of the many levels of consciousness.
Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.
Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar's message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action.
I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one.
What is the real Self? The waking self was not there in the dream. The self in the dream which experienced so many things is not there in the waking … Yet there is something common: you cannot deny that you experience the waking world, you cannot deny that you experience the dream world.
Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal.
You are as much able as you know.
Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite 'I'. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
Divine, but differences in human nature such as variation in happiness, misery, riches, intelligence, success, and failure are the result of karma and nothing else.
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.
A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.
Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.
