“Love is all-powerful. Hate can never withstand love. It is like a friable rock that gets worn away by repeated bathings of the ocean waves. A core group of people in a society dedicated to meditation and prayer, fully embracing love and acceptance, cannot for long be held off by the forces of hate and […]
Continue reading“Women, when activated by the heart, can move mountains. The women who heard Paz’s message carried it back to their families, spread it in their neighborhood gatherings, took it to their political rallies, and insisted on it with their elected representatives. They demanded that their nations move away from hostility and war and toward negotiation […]
Continue reading“Everything went still within their souls. Problems were forgotten. Thoughts stopped completely. Time stood frozen. There was a wonderful feeling of lightness and tranquility Their heads expanded outward, including first the cave only, but then, the heavens themselves. The friends felt as if they encompassed the entire universe. And then there was the light! Soft […]
Continue reading“A Self-realized being cannot help but benefit the world. Her very existence is the highest good. Hold fast to the Self, then doubts will disappear. By staying in the Now, one finds that there is no future to worry about.”
Continue reading“The religious can learn the same lessons as the meditative. Hear the Bible: ‘Be still and know that I am God.’ Is not the Self Absolute Stillness? Also: ‘There is One alone and no second.’ Is the Self not Infinite, Eternal, Omnipresent, and Undivided?”
Continue reading“Suffering is the way for Realization of God,” the saint replied. “Distress often leads people to faith in God. The cause of your misery is not in your outer life; it is in you, as your ego. You impose limitations on yourself and then make a vain struggle to transcend them. All unhappiness is due […]
Continue reading“Their eyes gained the ability to see right through the rock, into the depths of the hill. Inside it they perceived another world, a world of radiant beings. There were silvered shapes distinguishable as ancient rishis, golden shapes reminiscent of Realized teachers, and transparent shapes that seemed to have left all identity of any sort […]
Continue reading“Thoughts are only predispositions accumulated in previous births. The mind receives an impression from an experience. If that impression is powerful and repeated, it becomes a tendency, which, in turn, leads to thoughts in that and later lives.”
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