Our Quotes of the Day:

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.

In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

Gold and silver hold no value for me; my only treasure is the name of Krishna.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.

It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!

The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.

When breath flows through the right nostril, the body, mind, and brain power are all active and when it flows through the left, usually the mind is less active and dull.

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.

Swami Vivekananda says: Fortune is like a flirt—she will run away from you when you want her, but if you are not interested in her, she will come chasing you.

Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.

When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.