Our Quotes of the Day:
The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.
God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
When you do not consciously relate to your body, your mind does not relate consciously to you.
For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the same way an animal or a tree is. Gradually, though, more and more of their identity went into the movement of thought. They identified more and more with the movement of thinking.
Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself.
Through sincere prayer, you tune your heart to God.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
All ignorance is the lack of love.
Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.
With right attitude, life is very simple and very easy.
There is no origin of this universe—no cessation, no creation, nor destruction of this universe. There is nobody who is in bondage. There is nobody who is a spiritual seeker who is doing spiritual practices. There is nobody who is seeking liberation, and indeed nobody who is liberated. This is the ultimate truth.
In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.
Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith.
Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.
We should never forget that after every night, there is a dawn. We should never lose our optimistic faith.
Peace is my God.
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
Any holy book that gives you spiritual motivation is good, but one should not develop ego or pride with one's knowledge of the scriptures. Theoretical knowledge is not enough in daily life. Practical experience is essential.
If you make your body very strong, really strong, it can fight off anything.
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.
How can one know who his spiritual teacher is?...His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart sees a spiritual Master, if it is overwhelmed with joy, then there is every probability that that spiritual Master is the right one for the seeker.
