Our Quotes of the Day:

The greater the force of your compassion, the greater your resilience in confronting hardships.

Once you turn your focus inward, the process of transformation will begin; then you will become aware of the many levels of consciousness.

Descartes said, ‘I think, therefore I exist.’ Vedanta would go one step further. Even when I don’t think, I’m still aware of not thinking … Instead of saying, ‘I think, therefore I exist’, it would say, ‘I exist, therefore I think.’

If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.

The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

It is not the amount of action but the depth of experience that makes life rich and fulfilling.

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.

New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts.

The sages and saints, clad with the bark of a tree, their eyes sunk in, their skin shrunk over their bony frame and their hair matted in locks, are the living idols of God as they move from door to door for alms.

You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself.

If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Contribute to charitable projects like the printing of spiritual books so that they can be sold at a lower price. Poor people will then be able to buy and read them. In this way we can help to cultivate spiritual culture in them also.

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

Association with the wise, abandonment of latent impressions, self-enquiry, control of breathing — these are the means of conquering the mind.

When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.

Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

Great men have the nature of a child.

Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.

You are very powerful, providing you know how powerful you are.

Adore God, abhor sin.