Our Quotes of the Day:

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

Determination is the power that sees us through all frustrations and obstacles. It helps in building the willpower that is the very basis of success within and without. It is said in the scriptures that with the help of sankalpa shakti, the power of determination, nothing is impossible.

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that although most of us are opposed to political tyranny and dictatorship, we inwardly accept the authority, the tyranny, of another to twist our minds and our way of life.

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

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.

Our chanting will not uplift our consciousness unless we have co-operative affectionate relationships with each other.

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

How can kindliness rule that man Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?

Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.

Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower.

What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.