Our Quotes of the Day:

I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?

There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen from which the previous ones are mere abstractions. Just like on sunrise you see things as they are, so on self-realization you see everything as it is. The world of illusions is left behind.

If our desires, words and actions are offered in the spirit of service to the supreme Lord Sri Krishna, then Krishna will personally reciprocate with His love.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

In every moment you only have one real choice: to be aware of the Self or to identify with the body and the mind.

External circumstances can only cause you physical pain. Suffering is created in your mind.

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.