Our Quotes of the Day:
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first but the end will not come right away. — Luke 21:9
Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.
Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
My brothers and sisters, remember this again and again: you must practice Kriya with love, according to your capacity. It is the way to cross the ocean of the world. With folded hands, humbly tell this to all.
There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him.
Grace be with you all. — Hebrews 13:25
Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower."
Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.
You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.
Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening.
Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.
The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.
Silence is powerful; it can calm storms within.
Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?
Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence. To help soldiers move in the nonviolent direction, we have to be in touch with them. If we divide reality into two camps - the violent and the nonviolent - and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence in ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact.
The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.
Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.... No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation, penance and remembrance can produce love in themselves. None of these is necessarily a sign of love. On the contrary, those who sigh loudly and weep and wail have yet to experience love. Love sets on fire the one who finds it. At the same time it seals his lips so that no smoke comes out.
