2012 Daily quotes: May
May-1
You can have all good things, wealth, friends, kindness, love to give and love to receive once you have learned not to be blinded by them; learned to escape from disappointment, and from repugnance at the idea that things are not as you want them to be.
May-2
The truth need not be veiled, for it veils itself from the eyes of the ignorant.
May-3
No man should allow his mind to be a vehicle for others to use; he who does not direct his own mind lacks mastery.
May-4
Rest of mind is as necessary as rest of body, and yet we always keep the former in action.
May-5
Those who have given deep thoughts to the world are those who have controlled the activity of their minds.
May-6
Unity in realization is far greater than unity in variety.
May-7
The afterlife is like a gramophone: man’s mind brings the records; if they are hard, the instrument produces harsh notes; if beautiful, then it will sing beautiful songs. It will produce the same records thatman has experienced in this life.
May-8
He who depends upon his eyes for sight, his ears for hearing, and his mouth for speech, he is still dead.
May-9
We cover our spirit under our body, our light under a bushel; we never allow the spirit to become conscious of itself.
May-10
When we devote ourselves to the thought of God, all illumination and revelation is ours.
May-11
God-communication is the best communication that true spiritualism can teach us.
May-12
The mystic desires that which Omar Khayyam calls wine the wine of Christ, after drinking which no one will ever thirst.
May-13
Our limited self is a wall separating us from the self of God.
May-14
The wisdom and justice of God are within us, yet they are far away, hidden by the veil of the limited self.
May-15
He who looks for a reward is smaller than his reward; he who has renounced a thing has risen above it.
May-16
The poverty of one who has renounced is real riches compared with the riches of one who holds them fast.
May-17
Love for God is the expansion of the heart, and all actions that come from the lover of God are virtues; they cannot be otherwise.
May-18
God is the ideal that raises mankind to the utmost height of perfection.
May-19
He is wise who treats an acquaintance as a friend; and he is foolish who treats a friend as an acquaintance; and he is impossible who treats friends and acquaintances as strangers you cannot help him.
May-20
Insight into life is the real religion, which alone can help men to understand life.
May-21
The realization that the whole life must be give and take is the realization of the spiritual truth and fact of true democracy; not until this spirit is formed in the individual can the whole world be elevated to the higher grade.
May-22
The perfect life is following one’s own ideal, not in checking those of others; leave everyone to follow his own ideal.
May-23
Every man’s desire is according to his evolution; that which he is ready for is the desirable thing for him.
May-24
Discussion is for those who say, What I say is right, and what you say is wrong. A sage never says such a thing; hence, there is no discussion.
May-25
Tolerance does not come by learning, but by insight; by understanding that each one should be allowed to travel along the path which is suited to his temperament.
May-26
So long as a man has a longing to obtain any particular object, he cannot go further than that object.
May-27
Every man’s path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires, that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.
May-28
The control of self means the control of everything.
May-29
God is love; when love is awakened in the heart, God is awakened there.
May-30
All the disharmony of the world caused by religious differences is the result of man’s failure to understand that religion is “one”, truth is “one”, God is “one”; how “can” there be two religions?
May-31
The use of friendship for a selfish motive is like mixing bitter poison with the sweet rose syrup.