Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others’ shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.
Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousne...
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's ea...
If you retain the joyous aftereffects of meditation throughout the day, or part of the day, you will see that this joy will correctly guide you in everything. Saints are guided by this joy, in the con...
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.
Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others!
He fitted the Vedic definition of a man of God: Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake.
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
The true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind.
The Yoga system of Patanjali is known as the Eightfold Path. 9 The first steps are (1) yama (moral conduct), and (2) niyama (religious observances). Yama is fulfilled by noninjury to others, truthfuln...
If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religi...
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady, he remarked on suitable occasion. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon’s knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with c...
Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.
Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the...
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you
The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man; wisdom too is a native hunger.
The soul must stretch over the cosmogonic abysses, while the body performs its daily duties.
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
The truths taught by Jesus went far beyond blind belief, which waxes and wanes under the influence of the paradoxical pronouncements of priest and cynic. Belief is an initial stage of spiritual progre...