Our Quotes of the Day:
Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.
World peace begins with inner peace.
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
Happiness depends on ourselves.
What is the real Self? The waking self was not there in the dream. The self in the dream which experienced so many things is not there in the waking … Yet there is something common: you cannot deny that you experience the waking world, you cannot deny that you experience the dream world.
We should never use the truth to wound.
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
Sacrifice is the law of life.
It will be necessary for us Indians - Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their home - to recognize a common flag to live and die for.
Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.
I am never lonely. A lonely person is one who is not aware of the complete fullness within. When you become dependent on something outside without having awareness of the reality within you, then you will indeed be lonely. The whole search for enlightenment is to seek within, to become aware that you are complete in yourself. You are perfect. You don’t need any externals. No matter what happens in any situation, you need never be lonely.
The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle.
Beyond the mind, is no question of will. Will is within the mind, and being within the mind, it is a chain of cause and effect.
Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there.
Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith.
In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.
I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.
Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.
