Our Quotes of the Day:
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green, blissful area of our Self.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'
You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
Those who have loved are those that have found God.
My child, what to do! First you must forbear. Remember, all are bound with their karma. Yet, there is a little free will. Still, do not worry. There is One who is always ready to take care of you. Trust God. Love Him.
Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Learning is as much an art as teaching.
Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.
When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary, day-to-day existence, when moment to moment you live totally, intensely, passionately, then God is available.
Whenever we know ourselves spiritually, we naturally know others too, we know them in their spiritual essence, and then our relationships are deep, forever, and limitlessly meaningful.
Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.
It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.
A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.
Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement.
Beingness is just joy.
Modern civilization is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
To breathe and know you are alive is wonderful. Because you are alive, everything is possible.
