Our Quotes of the Day:
Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person.
Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.
Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.
Without atmosphere, air, there is no creation. As breath is life, to love breath is to love all the living creation.
For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.
Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.
The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?
All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.
It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light.
I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.
If development is the new name for peace, war and preparations for war are the major enemy of the healthy development of peoples. If we take the common good of all humanity as our norm, instead of individual greed, peace would be possible.
Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life - whether you enjoy or suffer - it is your own responsibility. Be regular in your meditation and do not postpone for a later date your striving for God consciousness.
Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.
The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.
OM is radiant Light. When this Light is spread throughout the body, all is seen; then, there is no desire to speak and to look.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
