Wisdom for the New Year
If there is light in the soul There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation There will be peace in the world. Chinese Proverb Weekly words of wisdom from Lama Surya Das If you control the tongue, you have controlled all the senses. -- Sri Swami Sivananda Meditation Is Essential to Life To understand this whole problem of influence, the influence of experience, the influence of knowledge, of inward and outward motives - to find out what is true and what is false and to see the truth in the so-called false - all that requires tremendous insight, a deep inward comprehension of things as they are, does it not? This whole process is, surely, the way of meditation. Meditation is essential in life, in our everyday existence, as beauty is essential. The perception of beauty, the sensitivity to things, to the ugly as ...