Our Quotes of the Day:
He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.
Detachment is not that you own nothing, but that nothing owns you.
Purity of life is the highest and truest art.
In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation—renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.
You are not really the waker. You are not really the dreamer. You are not the deep sleeper … Waking, dreaming, and deep sleep keep coming and going throughout our days, but behind it is one common consciousness, one common awareness.
Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.
Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.
Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.
We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.
You cannot exist without the universe. You are not a separate existence.
I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.
India saw from the beginning, - and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, - that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
When there is a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add colours... enjoy the day with Wisdom!
Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it—the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.
A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.
The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.
The good and the bad, the elevating and the demeaning, float past you in the stream of the mind. You are the consciousness sitting on the banks of the river of the mind watching.
Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course
