I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.
"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.
Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I'm going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times, "Wake up!" My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it fine; if you don't, too bad! As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens."
It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.
Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.
Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.
Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time.
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.
Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.
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