Our Quotes of the Day:

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

True inner joy is self-created. It does not rely on any outer circumstances. A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings but also that it is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him.

The works of present life are more important than the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

Now I see that if one doesn’t know how to die, one can hardly know how to live—because death is a part of life.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.