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Pope John Paul II
Influential Catholic leader.
Sarada Devi
Devoted partner of Ramakrishna.
Francis of Assisi
Franciscan friar who embraced radical poverty and compassion.
Mother Teresa
Catholic nun dedicated to serving the poor in Calcutta.
Sivananda Saraswati
Yoga master and founder of Divine Life Society.Our Quotes of the Day:
The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.
The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!
Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and make them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.
The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.
You want to change others so that you can be free. But, it never works that way. Accept others and you are free.
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment.
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
