Our Quotes of the Day:
Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.
Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness.
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
When we are inadequate ourselves but our ego is strong, we tend to blame others.
Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.
The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.
Using another as a means of satisfaction and security is not love. Love is never security; love is a state in which there is no desire to be secure; it is a state of vulnerability.
To be blessed is to live in gratitude, so that God can fulfill you forever.
When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga. Yoga is the state of no-mind. If you can be without the mind without doing any posture, you have become a perfect yogi. It has happened to many without doing any postures, and it has not happened to many who have been doing postures for many lives.
Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.
The great disadvantage of a God-centered approach, especially in today’s world, is that the God-centered approach starts with—and proceeds with for a long time—faith. Belief. If you start with questioning and skepticism, it’s very difficult to follow the God-centered approach.
A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age.
Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none.
But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.
Your true nature is purity, peace and joy.
The great spiritual masters all seem to say that it’s God’s will alone—Thy will be done. It is God’s will which is working through everything, not ours.
Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.
God cannot be realized without love. Yes, sincere love.
You are the universe experiencing itself.
A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.
You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.
I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.
