Our Quotes of the Day:
Truth is one, paths are many.
Water the root to enjoy the fruit.
Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
Truth means not to allow any falsehood in thought, words, or deeds. Truth is not to hurt others.
Regular and sincere practice brings success.
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.
If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.
All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness.
Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends on one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.
Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by its dualities. A yogi who perceives his real self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.
For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal.
The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.
Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.
What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.
