When Jesus said '[No man comes to the Father] except through me' he was speaking of the Self, not the body, but people have misunderstood this. On another occasion Jesus said, 'The kingdom of heaven is within you'. He did not mean that it is within...
Do not oppose. Opposition is dangerous to immortality. Rather let the wrong just be a drop in the ocean of your virtue...
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. Mahatma Gandhi It is so easy to sit in judgment of the people around us, especially those we see day after day. At work,...
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance--letting come what comes and...
"What day is it?" "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh. A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh Everything we do is new. Everything is something we've never done before. Whether we let ourselves in on it or not, we've never had this moment before. Eaten this dinner on this...
The syllable gu means shadows The syllable ru, he who disperses them, Because of the power to disperse darkness the guru is thus named. Advayataraka Upanishad All that a guru can tell you is: 'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person you take...
Being a person is not something one can do. It is not a performance. It may require that we stop our frantic business, that we take time out to breathe and to feel. In the process we may feel our pain, but if we have...
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha What am I going to share with the world today, with the people in my world? What conditions have...
[Upanishad] is that which is learnt sitting close to the teacher with complete humility in order to understand the ultimate supreme truth. What is the content of the Upanishad? It is 'Brahma Vidya' - knowledge or understanding of the 'Brahman’…the Supreme Reality behind the entire phenomenon...
It is only when you come to a situation where you are face to face with sorrow that you stop and look at that which is beyond. If you are always happy, if you always get a lollipop to suck - which is what the...