Our Quotes of the Day:
Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.
Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to whoever cares to come, be it a man, woman, child, or an animal. If you sit under a tree it will protect you from the weather, from the scorching sun as well as from the pouring rain, and it will give you flowers and fruit. Whether a human being enjoys them or a bird tastes of them matters little to the tree; its produce is there for anyone who comes and takes it.
He was one with all beings and He had great love for all in the world. He was one with God.
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.
Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
It does not take much for a human being to live well. Only when you are trying to imitate someone else, it takes a lot.
Advaita Vedanta is one of the schools of Vedanta, but I would dare say it’s sort of preeminent because of certain reasons which make it peculiarly acceptable to the modern mind. There is little to no theology, and the emphasis is on experience and reason. Advaita Vedanta gives tremendous emphasis and importance to life as we experience it, and then uses reason to come to its conclusions … The conclusion of Advaita Vedanta was that we are, in a sense, profoundly mistaken about our own nature … Advaita’s purpose is to educate us, to shift our paradigm, so that we come to see the world and ourselves in that way.
Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.
Mysticism is not a technology for enlightenment. Mysticism is pure science – an exploration of existence.
Meditation is good, one can attain a pure mind by one-pointedness and detachment. Meditate upon one point and you will know God.
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
I love acting. I'm able to express myself and not get made fun of for it.
I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
For what you do to others, you do to yourself.
Never put anyone out of your heart.
To know one's Self is to be blissful always.
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.
Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
Incompleteness breeds restlessness, while completeness is inner fulfillment. It is to be experienced through deep meditation.
