Our Quotes of the Day:
Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.
I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways
Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it
Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. Love is not against hate -- it is absence of hate.
Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
Sushumna application is the most important factor in spiritual practice. The moment sushumna is awakened, the mind longs to enter the inner world. When the flow of ida and pingala is directed toward sushumna, and distractions are thereby removed, meditation flows by itself.
I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.
Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.
Every work is an opportunity to worship the divine.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Suffering lets us see where our attachments are - and that helps us get free.
...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.
When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.
People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It’s time to regain it.
When you are free from thinking of ordinary things, your mind will be absorbed in God, in the formless state of divinity.
By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.
See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.
Woman is the destroyer of man. Do not look at her, at any cost. Note: (The sun of the self, that is, sound, is referred to here as man; and the jyoti, light of the self, is referred to as woman. In other words, do not be interested in the play of jyoti, or develop attachment to the inner visions; after all, visions are secondary and are not inner Realization.)
From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears
We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respect are the source of harmony
Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
