Mahatma Gandhi
My own experience has led me to the knowledge that the fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves. A man without that faith is like a drop thrown out of the ocean bound to perish.
I...
Swami Vivekananda
The old dilemma, whether the tree precedes the seed or the seed the tree, runs through all our forms of knowledge.
Whether intelligence is first in the order of being or matter; whether the ideal is first or the external manifestation; whether freedom is our true nature or bondage...
Kriya Yoga is a simple, psychophysiological method by which the human blood is decarbonized and recharged with oxygen. The atoms of this extra oxygen are transmuted into life current to rejuvenate the brain and spinal centers.
By stopping the accumulation of venous blood, the yogi is able to lessen or prevent...
Sunyata (Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen)
Evelyn Underhill has defined mysticism as the art of union with Reality. A “mystic” is an individual who has attained, or awakened into that union to a greater or lesser degree, or he is the one who has an inkling of that unity and who...
Ilie Cioara
The “void” or “psychological emptiness” is a strange phenomenon, which appears spontaneously in the pause between two thoughts. First, the old thought ends its course and disappears. At its end lies the gate, where natural silence ensues.
Persistently try to identify with this “emptiness” and dwell in it for...
Swami Vivekananda
People have a natural desire to enjoy; and when they do not find their selfish enjoyments in this life, they think that after death they will have a lot of enjoyment somewhere else. If these enjoyments do not take us towards knowledge in this life, in this world,...
Swami Tejomayananda
Hinduism believes in one God, one consciousness that pervades everyone and everything. What is the relationship between this one God which Hinduism believes in and the thousands of deities whom Hindus actually worship?
The power of the government is one, right? But there are many ministers and officers through...
Krishnamurti
In observing there is always the observer. The observer who, with his prejudices, with his conditioning, with his fears and guilts and all the rest of it, he is the observer, the censor, and through his eyes he looks, and therefore he is really not looking at all, he is merely...
Nisargadatta Maharaj
During your entire lifetime, you do not have any permanent identity. Whatever you consider yourself to be changes from moment to moment. Nothing is constant.
If you really want to understand this, you must give up your identification with the body. By all means, make use of the body,...
Rupert Spira
It is common for people who encounter this teaching to fear dissolution of their identity. What do we fear disappearing with the recognition of our true nature? It’s true that what seems to define us as a person – our thoughts, feelings, ideas, name and form – is...