Vivekananda on freedom
“Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are …but unless you realize the Truth,…
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“Your task is not to seek for love”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against…
“He knows God rightly”
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or, he may be in Church and be…
A liberdade de dar liberdade
“Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy…
Quando o melhor acontece (The Mother)
When does the Best happen? If, in the presence of circumstances that are about to take place, you can take the highest attitude possible—that…
Sua mão abre e fecha e abre e fecha
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your…
Ciência para os seres humanos (fala o Dalai)
“Yet the ramifications of these new findings and their applications are so far-reaching that they relate to the very conception of human nature and…
Amar em tempos de cólera
“O ódio existe com o passado e com o futuro, enquanto o amor não precisa nem de passado nem de futuro. O amor existe…
Truth made the world
“Truth made the world, not a blind Nature-Force.” ~ Sri Aurobindo
Then alone you will see
“There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon…
The centre is everywhere
“Each soul is a circle whose circumference is nowhere (limitless) but whose centre is in some body. Death is but a change of centre….
“There is an ascending evolution”
There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from the animal…
Die, die and die again, and again, and again
“You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you don’t die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely,…
Your Yoga, by Sri Aurobindo
“Accepting life, he has to bear not only his own burden, but a great part of the world’s burden too along with it, as…
“That is not a woman, sir”
Visitor: “That woman’s arm is too long.” Matisse: “That is not a woman, sir, it’s a painting.” ~ Henri Matisse