Wisdom Library

Anyone can breathe; therefore anyone can practise yoga. The breath is the teacher.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation, is itself the middle way.

Yoga is not about the shape of your body but the shape of your life.

O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I…

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

All life is yoga.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you. Depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you…

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The unnameable is the eternally real.

God is the mirror in which you see yourself, and you are His mirror in which He contemplates His divine names.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours and can never be taken from you.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with…

Knowledge that does not take you beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

An ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory. Do not wait. Begin now.

Without love, all our doing is merely business. Love transforms every ordinary act into something divine.

Settle yourself in solitude and you will come upon God in yourself. The soul that is attached to anything will not arrive at the liberty of divine love.

If you resist change, you resist life. The nature of life is change; the nature of mind is to resist change.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

That religion which is against science and reason is superstition and not true religion.

Children, come into the light. Remain in the light. Become the light.

Sub ek — All is one. See God in everything and everyone.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

The name of God is the boat for crossing the ocean of birth and death. Chant it constantly — this is the only lasting wealth.

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

God dwells not in golden temples. He resides in the pure hearts of those who remember Him with love.

The Buddha taught emptiness in order to abandon all views. Those who cling to the view of emptiness are called incurable.

The river that flows in you also flows in me. The wave that rises in me rises also in you. God is not found in temples made of stone —…

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

Tuka says: the saints are the moving pilgrimage of the Lord, carrying His presence wherever they go.