'Will-o'-the-Wisps' - Learn to recognise true spiritual light - If you imagine that you are going to lose your light by working physically, then it would be better to lose it, because what you lose will not be true light. True light cannot be lost by working; on the contrary, if you work, the light [...]
True seriousness is an inner thing. Outwardly I am a child, but inwardly I am far more serious than you. Whereas you are old outwardly, but you are not serious inwardly, because your convictions and ideals are always changing. Do you really think you can convince me that you are serious? No, someone who is [...]
Sri Ramana Maharshi 'You must have heard a television interview, some time ago, with some Tibetan lamas who declared that all the greatest sages were people who knew how to laugh. And if you read Paul Brunton’s books, A Search in Secret India and A Search in Secret Egypt, you will learn a great deal [...]
Laughter is a very beneficial, very therapeutic energy. This is why a visit to a circus with clowns can be very good for someone who has problems with their liver, for laughter relaxes the spleen and the spleen can heal the liver. Someone whose liver is over-burdened with poisons and toxins of all kinds tends [...]
'Today is a blessed day! Just look at the light! Look at how pure and transparent it is! Thousands of nature spirits, little gnomes with beards and funny little hats, are here laughing with me. They whisper amongst themselves, ‘Here is one, at last, who understands!’ And they bring me all kinds of presents from [...]
'I had better warn those amongst you who are longing to be serious: you are due for a disappointment today. How can we be serious today, when everything is so bright and cheerful? Look around you! Everything in nature is vibrant with happiness and joy. Today, we must vibrate in unison with the whole of [...]
…and stop worrying about people who are in love. What does it matter to you if they embrace and make love? Leave them alone; be a little more broad-minded. Do not deprive others of their joy. Heaven is more generous than you are. You do not realize that you are wishing for their death by [...]
'The whole world will tell you; ‘Be careful, be prudent, do not be too kind. It is very dangerous to be kind, because people take advantage of you and then criticize you.’ But where does that leave love, kindness and generosity? No, you must do what is right in the eyes of heaven; that is [...]
'Take an apple, peel it, cut it into pieces and eat it: this gives you a particular sensation. But if you bite straight into the apple, you have a different sensation. Now, go into an orchard, pull the branch of an apple tree towards you, and start biting into an apple without picking it: you [...]
'The question of love will be even more significant to future generations, everything else will seem pale in comparison. Love will be the world’s principal preoccupation, of utmost importance, because people will realize by then that the way to perfection and divinity is through love, loving divinely. God is love and love is God; if [...]