Our Quotes of the Day:
Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.
People try to search for happiness in sensory objects. When one is so engrossed in the world, it leaves no time for self-inquiry.
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
A guru is simply a laundryman.
When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.
Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.
When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.
A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.
Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.
If you are not able to take care of yourself, if you are not able to accept yourself, how could you accept another person and how could you love him or her?
Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.
A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.
A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.
For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
One idea lights a thousand candles.
The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.
