Our Quotes of the Day:
When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.
If you do what you like with 100% involvement, what you don’t like, you must do with 200% involvement. That’s breaking limitations.
When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.
Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
Failures are stepping-stones to success.
To the degree we consider ourselves as instruments in the hands of the previous acaryas, to that extent, we facilitate the flow of mercy.