(It is) in that utter stillness the 'Truth' comes into being. One understands one's true reality. It is as if all the impurities, or all the agitations, or all the modifications of the mind have been wiped out and the essence remains in its absolute purity...
Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem...
The Yogis of ancient times wondered: If the condition of the mind is affecting one's breath, is it possible to change the breathing rhythm so that the mind can be pacified? From this insight, many pranayamas came to be. A simple evidence - if you watch your breath or become...
Non-violence does not mean an external manifestation of being not harmful to others alone. Nonviolence is a state of mind. I have seen this happen with my Master - with whom I lived in the Himalayas for many years - that if you cease to hate or not...
Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character: a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character. Swami Vivekananda The ancient teachings of Vedanta say the goal of all yoga...
At some point of time a great thought will come to us: Let me go and see what is behind all these differences, let me try to understand the One behind the many. That will be the time when our journey will become inward. Till then it is...
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Carl Sagan The Upanishads are one of the main sources of Vedic wisdom. The word Upanishad means something like 'sitting down at the feet/the source of the knowledge.' Implying the need to empty oneself...
If we act to avoid pain (or get a huge enough blast of pleasure to blot out the discomfort) we automatically are identified with the ego. If we act in order to have joy, we identify with the Field. David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. Being human is an often painful...
Everything that was broken has forgotten its brokenness. I live now in a sky-house, through every window the sun. Also your presence. Our touching, our stories. Earthy and holy both. How can this be, but it is. Every day has something in it whose name is Forever. Mary Oliver, Everything That was Broken, from the...
A man who says he knows is already dead. But the man who thinks "I don't know," who is discovering, finding out, who is not seeking an end, not thinking in terms of arriving or becoming - such a man is living, and that living is truth. J. Krishnamurti, To Be...