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.Continue reading

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 afraid no longer. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj   One of the greatContinue reading

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   AllContinue reading

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.  Continue reading

Look at the Upanishads; nobody preaches anything there. They say – ‘Explore’! Sri M   The Upanishads are the distillation of the Vedas, the clearest expression of the Vedic truth that consciousness is one thing, that I am that one thing, as are you, as is everyone, always. The Upanishads say that the whole ofContinue reading

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,Continue reading

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’ Jesus spoke of isContinue reading

Do not oppose. Opposition is dangerous to immortality.   Rather let the wrong just be a drop in the ocean of your virtue… when you forgive, all nature enjoys your brilliance and returns joy to you.   We are not in a position to criticize anything. We are only in a position to adore everything,Continue reading

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’s easy to sit in judgment of the people around us, especially those we see day after day. At work, at school, in our church or synagogue, our localContinue reading