Our Quotes of the Day:
ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.
The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.
See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.
Life is uncertain; death is certain.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”
Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.
The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.
What you have become is the result of what you have thought.
The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.
The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.
Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind.
A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.
Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.
All are brothers and sisters. All are one, be alike to everyone.
But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as absurd as thinking of the human body as a cell infested skeleton. Surely all forms of life, including man, must be understood as "symptoms" of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy in which case we cannot escape the conclusion that the galaxy is intelligent.
There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it.
Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for
Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.
