Daily Thoughts

31 Aug

Posted at 19:26h in Daily Thoughts

In the beginning there was desire, which was the first seed of mind; sages, having meditated in their hearts, have discovered by their wisdom the connection of the existent with the nonexistent. The Hymn of Creation, Rig Veda   The idea of desire and spiritual teachings is much misunderstood.   There is sometimes the idea...

30 Aug

Posted at 20:17h in Daily Thoughts

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw   Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce   Each of us are individual expressions of nature. Nature always is evolving. This is all it knows to do....

28 Aug

Posted at 19:27h in Daily Thoughts

Tomorrow's bills are not the problem. The dissolution of the physical body is not a problem. Loss of Now is the problem, or rather: the core delusion that turns a mere situation, event, or emotion into a personal problem and into suffering. Loss of Now...

27 Aug

Posted at 18:33h in Daily Thoughts

Paradoxically, the dark night of the soul is often a sign of significant spiritual progress for it is not really the soul (higher Self) but the ego that is in the dark. Some comfort can be obtained by recalling the spiritual dictum that one can...

26 Aug

Posted at 18:54h in Daily Thoughts

Mindfulness is a "coming to your senses" that moves closer and closer to the fore, quite spontaneously, when you regularly set aside the time to practice. It allows you to experience the world--calmly and nonjudgmentally--directly through your senses. It gives you a tremendous sense of...

24 Aug

Posted at 19:20h in Daily Thoughts

In this circus of life that we go through, the peace, happiness, completeness and the stillness we seek lie within us. That ‘inner essence’, which is purna (fullness), is in every one of us. Sri M   Happiness never can be found outside the self. It only can...

23 Aug

Posted at 19:13h in Daily Thoughts

Make it a point in your life: Let there be no negative thought in the mind. If you really want peace of mind, don't ever harbor any negative thought even if it be true. It does not matter whether it is true or not, t   The Yoga...

22 Aug

Posted at 20:51h in Daily Thoughts

2 by Lao Tzu (604-531 BCE)   Beauty and ugliness have one origin. Name beauty, and ugliness is. Recognizing virtue recognizes evil.   Is and is not produce one another. The difficult is born in the easy, long is defined by short, the high by the low. Instrument and voice achieve one harmony. Before and after have...