Our Quotes of the Day:
The mind contains all possibilities.
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect.
Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.
Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.
A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.
If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.
Bless be the ones who serve others. They are the ones who find heaven on earth.
True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.
I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'
We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty.
Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.
Prosperity is the opposite of greedy.
By sincerely serving the instructions of great souls in a mood of humility, Krishna is pleased and gives us the higher taste for hearing and chanting.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
