Our Quotes of the Day:
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
Seriousness is a sickness... Existence is pure playfulness.
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face.
It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.
The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
The source of suffering is a false belief in permanence and the existence of separate selves.
Recognise the Light within all, and do not consider social class or status; there are no strangers in the home of God.
There is nothing wrong with looking at Bhagavan's picture. It is a very good practice. But you should not get sidetracked from your main objective, which is establishing yourself as consciousness. Don't get attached to states of bliss or give them priority over the quest for the Self.
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love, as you died for love of our love.
Peace starts with a smile
At present, the worldly man is helpless to achieve God-realization.
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
