Our Quotes of the Day:
Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.
Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.
Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.
I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself—out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.
Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.
If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.
God is truth and light his shadow.
People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross-legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.
Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore.
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
For all we know, we know nothing.
May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!
We are slaves of what we don't know; of what we know we are masters. Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover and understand its cause and workings, we overcome it by the very knowing. The primary purpose of meditation is to become more conscious and familiar with our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
If you are very happy, you will do many more things than if you are unhappy.
By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.
Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.
When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.
Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.
If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.
