meditation

If your aims are lofty, your achievements are bound to be great.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

Pray as if you possess no will. Work as if everything depends on you.

Everything is possible through complete devotion to the Lord.

Try as a meditation, to be with a stone, a flower or a tree, and you will find that they have consciousness. If you become friend with a tree, you will find that the tree will welcome you as a friend. The tree will be happy to see you.

To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth

Fools only crib about what they do not have. They do not count their blessings.

Contemplation + action = breakthrough

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody "I love you", when you are considering your children, when you educate them to become soldiers, to kill, to be nationalized, worshipping the flag, educating them to enter into this trap of the modern world; watching all that, realizing your part in it, all that is part of meditation. And when you so meditate you will find in it an extraordinary beauty; you will act rightly at every moment; and if you do not act rightly at a given moment it does not matter, you will pick it up again - you will not waste time in regret. Meditation is part of life, not something different from life.

The Indians around here tell a cautionary fable about a great saint who was always surrounded in his Ashram by loyal devotees. For hours a day, the saint and his followers would meditate on God. The only problem was that the saint had a young cat, an annoying creature, who used to walk through the temple meowing and purring and bothering everyone during meditation. So the saint, in all his practical wisdom, commanded that the cat be tied to a pole outside for a few hours a day, only during meditation, so as to not disturb anyone. This became a habit _ tying the cat to the pole and then meditating on God _ but as years passed, the habit hardened into religious ritual. Nobody could meditate unless the cat was tied to the pole first. Then one day the cat died. The saint's followers were panic-stricken. It was a major religious crisis _ how could they meditate now, without a cat to tie to a pole? How would they reach God? In their minds, the cat had become the means.

There are many who wish to be masters over others. Rare indeed is the man who wishes to be master of himself

Consider how blessed you are to have the things you do in life.

In every problem, there's a concealed solution...locking itself underneath...unlock,peruse,find and solve.

Once I was running and there was someone on the treadmill next to me who stopped running to answer a question I asked and flew of the back of the treadmill. Being fully engaged has many benefits.

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

As you notice your whole being, your entirety, your wise inner nature, there are messages there for you. Quietly give permission for your wholeness, your entirety, to share its deepest wisdom.