Our Quotes of the Day:
I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.
The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.
Compassion is the bridge that connects hearts and creates a harmonious society.
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.
If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.
Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
All things are beautiful seen through the eyes of love.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
If you're laughing, you're healing.
It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.
Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God's prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray.
There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.
Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.
If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.
The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.
The body is made up of atoms and subatomic particles that are moving at lightning speed around huge empty spaces and the body gives off fluctuations of energy and information in a huge void, so essentially your body is proportionately as void as intergalactic space, made out of nothing, but the nothing is actually the source of information and energy.