Our Quotes of the Day:
To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.
Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.
On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.
He was crucified so that his spirit could spread throughout the world. He sacrificed his body for the dharma. He never died, he never died. He is Atman (the Soul), living in the hearts of all.
The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.
I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive.
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.
Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.
Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself...
Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of God's holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.
...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.
You only lose that which you cling to.
No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.
Let your life be your message.
Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
Be in harmony, yet be different.
If one has little simplicity at heart, then one can achieve the mercy of a great soul and that becomes the very means to attain the life’s perfection.
A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.
