Our Quotes of the Day:
Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.
I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.
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.
Breath is the king of mind.
I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved. – Ephesians 2:4-5
Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that we cannot breathe without being conscious of our own divinity.
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.
The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.
All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.”
In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.
From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. This is the direct path for all. The mind is merely thoughts. Of all thoughts the thought "I" is the root.
Do not criticize that which you have not experienced.
One thing is certain, uncertainty of our life.
If there is no God consciousness in human life, then one will seek only mortality, not immortality.
The Upanishads contain perhaps the most ancient living teachings on spirituality. Spirituality at its most original and fresh … The basic teaching of the Upanishads is that there is an ultimate reality—this world that we experience, and how we experience ourselves, are all manifestations of that reality. We are that reality. If only we would know ourselves truly, we would realize ourselves to be that absolute reality. That absolute reality in the Upanishads is called ‘Brahman.’ Brahman literally means ‘the vast’. That is the closest word you’ve got in Vedanta to God.
Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.
To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.
