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Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.
Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
I have so many choices in America; it's home to so many good things. I'm smart enough to enjoy all the good things that are offered.
Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.
Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.
Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.
Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don't explain. Don't complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence.
The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.
The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.
Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.
Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.
Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.
The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.
Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.
I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.
At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?
In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.
The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself.
A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.
Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.
I've gotten it down to one hour. If dinner takes me longer than an hour to prepare, then it is too complicated. So it has to be simple.
All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.
Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.
Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.