Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.
The only thing that stands between you and your well-being is a simple fact: you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside rather than the inside.
Death is a fiction created by people who live their lives in total unawareness. There is only life, life and life alone, moving from one dimension to another, another dimension to another.
An intellectual understanding that is not backed by experiential knowledge can lead to mind games and deceptive states.
To program the calories you must consume and the number of hours you must sleep is a foolish way to handle life.
Money is definitely needed, but how much money do we really need? If we would change our idea of a successful life to a joyful life, we would find our need for money would dramatically decrease.
Why do we refer to the mind as a circus? A circus is not a mess; a circus is a very coordinated activity deliberately made to look like a mess. On one level it is a mess, but on another, it is a highly coordinated activity.
To rise above the modifications of your mind, when you cease your mind, when you cease to be a part of your mind, that is yoga.
But when it comes to the inner situation, there is only one ingredient: you. At least you must happen the way you want.
One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.
The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the right things will happen to you even without your intent.
Our lives become beautiful not because of what we do, our lives becomes beautiful simply because we have included everybody around us as a part of our dream of well being.
Eating natural foods, in their uncooked condition, when the cells are still alive, will bring an enormous sense of health and vitality to the system.
If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.
Only if you know to what extent your logic should go and where it should not go, your life will be beautiful.
Most people are investing their whole lifetime just for their material well-being. Dying to live, this is called.