To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
-Issac Asimov
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
-Issac Asimov
The devotee engages to the best of his ability into the play of life, fulfilling his role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife, parent, neighbor, and community servant. But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments; they are like part of God.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
-Joseph Roux
"Meditations of a Parish Priest”"
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; his presence should be felt everywhere, but he should never be seen.
-Gustave Flaubert
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
-Socrates
Devotion to God’s Name is my lamp; In this lamp is poured the oil of suffering. The light of realisation burns away this oil…Vast loads of firewood are reduced to ashes by a tiny spark of fire.
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory, you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.
He who trusts in God and makes an honest living to share with others and injures no one, nor harbours ill will against another need perform no other rituals.