Our Quotes of the Day:
When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.
Skill in any performance whether it be in sports, in playing the piano, in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and 'natural' as opposed to self-conscious and studied.
Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.
A realized being knows he or she is not the doer; therefore, a realized person is free.
Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.
In the state of love, no matter what you do, it's going to be good.
Do not judge others, for you do not know their journey.
Eyes...They speak all languages.
The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in place.
It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed.
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.
Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.
The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.
Health is your birthright.
There is no solution to worrying except finding the peace, the love, and the compassion in ourselves and being instruments of that compassion by connecting to that source that harmonizes everything.
When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is environmental generosity, without direction, without "for me" and without "for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
