Month: February 2008


  • What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

    -Mother Teresa


  • From the time there appears in this world one who has seen the truth, a
    fully awakened one, blessed by the truth, abounding in happiness, a
    teacher of wisdom and goodness, a buddha. He, by himself, thoroughly
    knows and sees this universe, and knowing it, makes his knowledge known
    to others. The truth, lovely in its origin, lovely in its progress,
    lovely in its consummation, he proclaims. A new life he makes known, in
    all its fullness.

    -Tevigga Sutta


  • I say that you may call on God by whatever name you please. You may
    call him God, or you may call him the Merciful. He has the best of
    names.

    -Qu’ran, Al-Isra, Surah 17:110


  • If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and
    another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory,
    because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

    -Buddha

  • For today’ radio program:

    A common cause of spiritual discouragement is the devotee’s expectation
    that God’s response will come in a great blaze of awe-inspiring inner
    illminations.  This erroneous notion dulls the devotee’s perception of
    the subtle Divine responses that are present from the very beginning of
    one’s meditative practices.  God responds to the devotee’s every
    effort, every devotional call.  Even as a novice, you will realize this
    in your own seeking if you learn to recognze Him as the quiet, inner
    peace that steals over your consciousness.  This peace is the first
    proof of God’s presence within.  You will know it is He who has guided
    and inspired you to some right decision in your life.  You will feel
    His strength empowering you to overcome bad habits and nurture
    spiritual qualities.  You will know Him as the ever-increasing joy and
    love that surges deep within, overflowing into your everyday life and
    relationships.

    Therefore,
    God is present right on the throne of peace within you.  Find Him there
    first and you will find Him in all the noble pursuits of life, in true
    friends, in the beauty of nature, in good books, in good thoughts, in
    noble aspirations…When you know God as peace within, then you will
    realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things
    without.

    –Paramahansa Yogananda, Where There Is Light at 170-171


  • We should study; Judaism has always insisted that knowledge has the power not only to make people smart but to make them good…

    - Rabbi Harold Kushner


    Sakka asked: “What is the cause of self-interest?”


    The Buddha answered: “It is perception of the world as one’s object.”


    “How does one overcome this perception of the world as apart from oneself?”


    “By acting for the increase of goodness and happiness. It is in this way that the world ceases to be one’s object.”

    -Digha Nikaya


  • Brahman is indivisible and pure;

    Realize Brahman and go beyond all change.

    He is immanent and transcendant.

    Realizing him, sages attain freedom

    And declare there are no separate minds.

    They have but realized what they always are.

    -Amritabindu Upanishad