Our Quotes of the Day:
The one you are looking for is the one who is looking.
Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.
I always keep my disciples under my guard.
Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo. Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor.
Dying is the most important moment that exists in any incarnation
The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.
Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art
Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.
God rewards according to the manner in which He is conceived or approached.
The tongue is sharper than a sword.
The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.
If you think hundred percent logically, there is really no possibility of life.
When the senses are well-controlled and withdrawn from contact with the objects of the world, then sense perceptions no longer create images in the mind. The mind is then trained in one-pointedness. When the mind no longer recalls thought-patterns from the unconscious, a balanced state of mind leads to a higher state of consciousness. A perfect state of serenity established in sattva is the highest state of enlightenment. The practice of meditation and non-attachment are the two keynotes. A very firm conviction is essential for establishing a definite philosophy of life.
When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.
The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.
Having practiced Kriya, one should hold onto the After-effect-poise of Kriya.
Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.
One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.
You cannot stand tall emotionally when you are always at the receiving end.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.