Our Quotes of the Day:
This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.
For what you do to others, you do to yourself.
Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile to hear of a fish in water athirst!
Being is the basis of thinking, thinking is the basis of action, action is the basis of achievement and achievement is the basis of fulfillment.
Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
Patience is the key to content.
You can bathe the body, but the mind is also impure. With what water can you bathe the mind? Chanting God’s name is the water to use for cleaning the mind.
Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.
Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.
I will never allow one of my people to escape from me.
There is a destiny that makes us brothers: none goes his way alone, All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. – Edwin Markham
The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others.
Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth.
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same man again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision; but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained; until the day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.
Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.
When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.
