Our Quotes of the Day:
Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
Make me an instrument of thy peace.
War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat.
When you are enlightened, you realize everything is that one consciousness.
Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.
What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.
The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
One who practices Pranayama, truly loves all beings.
Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.
To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook you should express yourself in your activity in the kitchen. You should allow yourself plenty of time.
Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.
You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.
No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
When you believe you can... you can!
How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind.
