Our Quotes of the Day:
In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Teresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.'
Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That would be a shame.
Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.
When a pure devotee or spiritual master speaks, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.
Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.
Sit in meditation! But do not think! Look only at your mind! You will see thoughts coming into it! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
There is only one real book to study and learn from—the greatest of all books—and that is the very manuscript that you, yourself, are.
A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.
For more than three decades I have waited for you to return to me. … You slipped away and disappeared into the tumultuous waves of the life beyond death. The magic wand of your karma touched you, and you were gone! Though you lost sight of me, never did I lose sight of you! I pursued you over the luminescent astral sea where the glorious angels sail. Through gloom, storm, upheaval, and light I followed you, like a mother bird guarding her young. As you lived out your human term of womb life, and emerged a babe, my eye was ever on you.
The soul in man is greater than his fate.
When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.
When you are completely identified with your thinking mind you are totally separate from everything else in the universe.
Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!
Even though the gopis had obeyed, they still had much doubt. How did the river part if what they were saying was not the truth? Indeed, the answer is that it was all a matter of “doership.” If your mind says, “I have done it,” you must receive the result of your action. But remember, it is crucial to understand that “doership” comes from the inside, not by saying it with the mouth. If one has the state of knowledge that all work is being done by the body and the senses, one is free from the consequences.
We need to go back to our relationship with nature and understand that those trees are our lungs. The earth is recycling as our body. The rivers are our circulation. This air is our breath. And the star stuff, the carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen that comes from distant galaxies is actually the molecules of your body.
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.
It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that world, and that is, you might say, enlightenment. When you see plum blossoms or hear the sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the world of emptiness.
