Our Quotes of the Day:
Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.
To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.
In order to teach us how to serve Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself appears as the spiritual master.
Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God-realization. Its aim also is Self-realization.
If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.
The soul is beyond the five gross elements. Soul is the controller and conductor of everything.
Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.
In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But when mankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.
A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.
I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.
God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.
It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.
Everything that happens to you is self-created.
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled ; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.
The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.
Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.