Our Quotes of the Day:
The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.
You are not a problem that needs solving.
You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.
Pure water means you don’t add anything but take all contamination, similarly pure love means you don’t put love, rather you take all dirt out of your heart; then you experience pure love of God.
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.
It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?
Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
If you want to be good, no one can stop you. If you want to be not good, no one can stop you either.
It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.
It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.
What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.
If you're laughing, you're healing.
For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.
Consider any work you do, as work coming from God's will.
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect ... You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet] has become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, a very unusual sound. I am quite free now.
I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."
Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.
Sushumna application is the most important factor in spiritual practice. The moment sushumna is awakened, the mind longs to enter the inner world. When the flow of ida and pingala is directed toward sushumna, and distractions are thereby removed, meditation flows by itself.
