Our Quotes of the Day:
Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!
You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, it is aggression, it is domination, it is possession, and many things - but not relationship. How can you relate with two egos there? When there are two egos, then there are four persons.
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.
Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.
Life is a flow of love.
In every failure lies the seeds of success.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? — Matthew 6:25
Be persistent in good actions.
The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.
Be happy! God sees in you another God. God sees you as another God. God sees you and He as One.
The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.
We have been born once and there can be no second birth. For all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.
It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.