Merry Christmas

I am other than name, form, and action. My nature is ever free! I am pure Awareness, always non-dual. Adi Shankara

Meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus, or walking in the woods full of light and shadows,or listening to the singing of the birds, or looking at the face of your wife or child. Krishnamurti

On Thanksgiving: Let us walk together, let us speak together, let our minds and hearts be united. Rig Veda

The traditions of the past are very great in their own place, in the past, but I do not see why we should merely repeat them and not go farther. In the spiritual development of the consciousness upon earth the great past ought to be followed by a greater future. Sri Aurobindo

Love Not for the sake of the other is the other dear, but for the sake of the Self is the other dear. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Love The river that flows in you also flows in me. Kabir

The Roots of Dharma Truthfulness, self-control, austerity, compassion, forgiveness, patience, knowledge, and lack of envy—these are the eight qualities that are the roots of Dharma. Mahabharata

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I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the vital air, nor the senses. I am verily the Brahman, the Blissful, the one without a second. There is nothing else anywhere. Ribhu Gita

Insight It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamurti

In this House You don’t have to escape the world to find peace. Swami Tyagananda

The Journey The spiritual journey of Vedanta is not a journey in space. It is a journey in consciousness, a shift in perspective. You are already Brahman (the ultimate reality); you just have to know that you are. Swami Sarvapriyananda

Harmony No religion is an island; we need each other in order to be ourselves. Raimon Panikkar

Ethics One can actually be good without being particularly spiritual, but one cannot be spiritual without being good. This is the basic foundation which connects ethics to spirituality. Swami Sarvapriyananda

Seeds The gospel of self-realization, once heard, will never be forgotten. Like a seed left in the ground, it will wait for the right season and sprout and grow into a mighty tree. Nisargadatta Maharaj For me, it was reading Eknath Easwaran’s “Upanishads” in a Border’s bookstore in my 20s.

What could be more timely: "My guru said every human has a right to be fed. Food is not a bargaining tool of power - food is a basic, shared manifestation of God." - Ram Dass

I AM When I say: ‘I am’, I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus. I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is and knows. Nisargadatta Maharaj

Happiness Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. Krishnamurti

If you falter on the path, forgive yourself, then begin again. O Lord, what becomes of the yogi who falters? Krishna: Dear one, no effort is lost. None who do good ever come to harm. Bhagavad Gītā 6:39–40 (Paraphrase)

Bhakti (Devotion) Bhakti is the most precious jewel in the treasure of liberation. Even those who seek knowledge ultimately take shelter in devotion. Srimad Bhagavatam

Bhakti (Devotion) Those who follow this immortal dharma of devotion, full of faith, regarding Me as the supreme goal — they are exceedingly dear to Me. Bhagavad Gita

Advaita You’re not lost—only your map is. The territory you seek has been under your feet the whole time. Swami Sarvapriyananda

Awe You are the primal God, the ancient Person; You are the supreme refuge of this universe. You are the knower and the knowable, the highest abode. O Lord of infinite forms, the whole cosmos is pervaded by You. Bhagavad Gita

Of what use is my going to Benares any more? At Mother's feet lie Bodh Gaya, the Ganges and Benares. I swim in the ocean of bliss while I meditate on Her in my heart lotus. Ramprasad Sen

Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Rabindranath Tagore

Your book knowledge is useful to begin with, but soon it must be given up for direct experience, which by its very nature is inexpressible. Nisargadatta Maharaj

Happy together Wednesday Always remember that 30 million little candles together Lights up the whole sky 💙

Everyday Yoga (Karma Yoga) Your right is to action alone, never to its fruits. Do not let the fruits of action be your motive, nor should you be attached to inaction. Bhagavad Gita

The Urgency Do not take pride in wealth, in friends, or in youth. Time takes away all these in a moment. Having abandoned this entire world of illusion (māyā), Realize and attain the state of the ultimate Reality (Brahman). Bhaja Govindam (Adi Sankara)

By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion (karuṇā) for the suffering, delight in the virtuous, and equanimity toward the wicked, the mind achieves serenity. Patanjali

The Paradox of Effort You are pure awareness, the Self, the witness, perfectly detached. Desire for stillness binds you. Ashtavakra Gita

Courage and love are the only indispensable virtues; even if all the others are eclipsed or fall asleep, these two will save the soul alive. Sri Aurobindo

And with it is born a universal love for all beings—living forms that are habitations of the Divine; not the restless grasp of emotion, but the settled selfless love that is the deeper vibration of oneness. Sri Aurobindo

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural. Wasily Kandindsky

This forest nurtures us like a mother; you will only be able to use your axes on it if you shoot me first. Gaura Devi (Chipko environmental movement)

The very essence of the Hindu Philosophy is that man is a spirit, and has a body, and not that man is a body and may have a spirit also. Swami Vivekananda

Meditation can take place when you are sitting in a bus, or walking in the woods full of light and shadows,or listening to the singing of the birds, or looking at the face of your wife or child. Krishnamurti

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial. Henry David Thoreau

Shanti Mantra May all be happy. May all be free from illness. May all see what is auspicious. May no one suffer any pain. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

You seem to want instant insight, forgetting that the instant is always preceded by a long preparation. The fruit falls suddenly, but the ripening takes time. Nisargadatta Maharaj

In the happiness of his people lies the ruler’s happiness; in their welfare, his welfare. He shall not consider as good only that which is dear to himself, but should consider as good that which contributes to the welfare of his people. The Arthaśāstra

Puja (Awakening the Divine Presence) Micro Edition Set aside a place - an alcove, a small table. Place upon it whatever image of the divine moves you. Fold your hands and remember that presence that pervades all. Light incense, offer a flower. Give thanks. Say “Om”. Five minutes a day.

Praxis Whoever offers to Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water, that offering of love, of the pure heart, I accept. Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gota

The divine music is incessantly going on within ourselves, but the loud senses drown the delicate music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses. Mahatma Gandhi

We worship the Three-Eyed One*, who is fragrant and who nourishes and sustains all beings. May He liberate us from the bondage of death, just as a ripened cucumber is effortlessly severed from its vine. May we not be deprived of Immortality. *(Tryambakam) = Shiva Rig Veda

- The Gospel According to Jesus by Stephen Mitchell

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth… This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us. It is in everybody. Thomas Merton

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others too. Mahatma Gandhi

He who sees Me everywhere and sees all in Me, I am not lost to him nor is he lost to Me. Bhagavad Gita