Thursday, February 26, 2009

Anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. - Buddha

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Love yourself

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Face the truth

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." - Vivekanand

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Religion

Religion is not in books, nor in theories, nor in dogmas, nor in talking, not even in reasoning. It is being and becoming. - Vivekanand

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Philosophy of Love

When it comes to love, you need not fall but rather surrender, surrender to the idea that you must love yourself before you can love another. You must absolutely trust yourself before you can absolutely trust another and most importantly you must accept your flaws before you can accept the flaws of another. - Buddha

Friday, February 13, 2009

Time ceases in awareness

Time is perhaps the greatest tension and trouble of our life. Time is conflict, anxiety and anguish of man. To live in time means to live stretched between it's two poles - the past and the future. Time always exists in exact proportion to our unconsciousness, to our psychological sleep. And when we are fully awake, aware, time ceases to be. The 'fire of awareness' burns time altogether. - Osho

Monday, February 9, 2009

Fearlessness

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word “fearlessness.” - Swami Vivekanad

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The Nature of Things

Two monks were washing their bowls in the river when they noticed a scorpion that was drowning. One monk immediately scooped it up and set it upon the bank. In the process he was stung. He went back to washing his bowl and again the scorpion fell in. The monk saved the scorpion and was again stung.
The other monk asked him, "Friend, why do you continue to save the scorpion when you know it's nature is to sting?"
"Because," the monk replied, "to save it is my nature."

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

An inevitable occurrence

Enthroning queen Death is,
A deep conspiracy of assembly of life,
An inevitable occurrence,
When, where and how,
Depends on make-up of life.

Excerpted from 'The Endless End' by Jatan Raj Jain