Our Quotes of the Day:
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.
To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.
Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!
Compassion is where peace and justice kiss.
Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.
Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.
...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
Nature gave you this intelligence to seek and access the Infinite, not to calculate in limited numbers.
Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for
"I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light."
When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.
Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached."
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life.
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
