Our Quotes of the Day:
The person is never free. You become free of the person, the person does not become free.
The earth is the basis of life. Spending some time touching soil, plants, or trees will harmonize your system.
The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.
God is even kinder than you think.
Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.
If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light.
Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.
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.
If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.
Beyond the five senses there is mind, that is breath; beyond the mind there is buddhi, that is bindu, or spot (in between the eyebrows); beyond the bindu, Brahma, the ultimate Self, is the Pure Void, and Formless.
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies.
You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.
Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.
What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.
The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.
Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.
No price is too great to pay for inner peace.
We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself.
If you desire a mango at the moment of death, you’ll be born an insect. If you even desire the next breath, you will take birth again.
But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.
