It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. Edna St. Vincent Millay When I first began studying spirituality and metaphysics with a group of like-minded individuals,...
Only in our doing can we grasp you. Only with our hands can we illumine you. The mind is but a visitor: it thinks us out of the world. Each mind fabricates itself. We sense its limits, or we have made them. And just when we would flee them, you come and make of yourself an offering. I don’t...
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Arnold H. Glasow Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J. Paul Getty The true meaning of the word "success" is the movement from one state to another. One state of being, one state of consciousness succeeds another....
As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, you seem short-lived and vulnerable, and of course you will feel anxious to survive. But when you know yourself to be beyond space and time you will be...
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. Henry David Thoreau All...
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really...
Look at the Upanishads; nobody preaches anything there. They say - ‘Explore’! Sri M The Upanishads are the the distillation of the Vedas, and the clearest expression of the Vedic truth that consciousness is one thing, that I am that one thing, as are you, as...
Be the change that you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi People don't ever really change. Bruce The other day a friend said this to me: "People don't ever really change." He was right, of course. We always are what we are. We have the reactions we have to life, to people. They may be...
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 the body. This 'you'...
Do not oppose. Opposition is dangerous to immortality. Rather let the wrong just be a drop in the ocean of your virtue...