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. As individual expressions of nature...

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 is loss of Being. Eckhart...

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 only go as...

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 perspective. You can sense what...

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, there is no place...

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 places. That is why the sage can act without...

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 is to...