Our Quotes of the Day:
Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
It is only by means of purity of mind can you come close to the Lord.
Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma.
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
If we want to follow the path of true auspiciousness, we should give up the countless opinions of people and only hear the words of the realised soul.
If we are prisoners, how do we free ourselves? How long must we remain in prison? With steadfast determination we must achieve the true spirit of freedom through proper contemplation, proper thinking, and right action and living. Otherwise, lifetime after lifetime we will remain bound by our karma.
If one stays too long with friends, they will soon tire of him; living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much when one dwells too long in companionship.
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.
As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one of the God who is formless and eternal.
We can't learn without pain.
The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by its dualities. A yogi who perceives his real self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.
Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.
Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world.
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
Treat everyone with respect, for God resides in all.
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is relevant. If you are miserable, somebody can ask why you are miserable, and the question is relevant - because misery is against nature, something wrong is happening. When you are happy, nobody asks you why you are happy, except for a few neurotics. There are such people; I cannot deny the possibility.
The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.
