Our Quotes of the Day:
A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.
Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
What is required is faith. Man has body, life and mind but that is not all that constitutes man. He has risen to the mind as a result of evolution. Now a higher consciousness will be evolved - this I call Supermind. It is the instrument of the Divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness.
Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky - limitless, infinite. From the bottom of the ocean soar into the vast sky.
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
The best way to understand the state of purity is to look at the children.
It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well-established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
Actually, it is not necessary to renounce the objects of the world, because a human being does not actually own or possess anything. Therefore it is not necessary to renounce anything—but the sense of possessiveness should be renounced.
I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.
You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.
You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck. It’s a vehicle to help you go to work. That’s why it’s called grace.
The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.
I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
