Our Quotes of the Day:
In Him is Everything. Him you must try to find.
There is more to life than food and more to the body than clothing. — Luke 12:23
As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. — 1 Peter 5:7
The experience of life is very bitter. It is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.
It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.
Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.
Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
A faithful man shall abound with blessings. — Proverbs 28:20
Remember, one day or another you will leave this world; do not run madly after material things.
Do not take life's experiences too seriously...
Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad
In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order.
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the “conquest”
If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
