True humility means giving joy to others.
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
How beautiful to look at When my prayer Lights a candle of hope In my heart.
Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength.
When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.
He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.
In my weightlifting I am trying to show that if you pray and meditate, you can bring to the fore your inner strength. Now, if somebody is really inwardly strong, he is always at peace.
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow’s ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today’s eternal Reality-Now.
Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.
Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress.
My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.
We must endure Adversity Bravely and cheerfully.
Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.
Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.
Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our life truly fruitful if we are not cut off from our Source, which is the peace of Eternity.
I have opened up an account With God’s Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.
Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.
I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if that person also can inspire me, then we can do many good things for the betterment of this world.
Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.
A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.