Our Quotes of the Day:
Fear gone, there can be no hatred.
The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. — Proverbs 22:6
Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.
We ourselves cannot put any magic spells on this world. The world is its own magic.
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure house of knowledge.
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly.
When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.
Life is available only in the present moment.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.
Speak the truth pleasantly without causing upset to the listener. Talk less and keep silent where the situation demands.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.
All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.
Happiness depends on ourselves.
Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.
