“Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.” NeedsSinCitiesOur LivesAreasRefuseSurrenderEngagingSurrender To God Author:Matt Chandler
“If we confuse the gospel with response to the gospel, we will drift from what keeps the gospel on the ground, what makes it clear and personal, and the next thing you know, we will be doing a bunch of different things that actually obscure the gospel, not reveal it.” IfsKnowsDifferentNextClearResponseBunchDifferent ThingsObscure Author:Matt Chandler
“By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal respect and have good brotherly feelings amongst themselves, great peace and harmony abound. Then all this earth shines like one house. The whole world shines like the one dwelling house of the entire human family.” MenWorldHumansWholeFeelingsEarthHouseHe ManEqualTreatsHarmonyShiningSupremeWhole WorldDwellingFraternityPeace And HarmonyHuman FamilyBrotherlyEqual Respect Author:Ramana Maharshi
“Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.” SaidStatesNaturalResultsObjectsSensorySteadfastSamadhi Author:Ramana Maharshi
“Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.” ShouldCommunityProsperityProsperousConsonance Author:Ramana Maharshi
“If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas.” IfsMindSoundWatchesNotionAriseMantrasTapas Author:Ramana Maharshi
“In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.” MindHeartSelfFormMovementDirectShiningDeeperSoleRestraintThyselfPlungeBrahman Author:Ramana Maharshi
“It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.” MindHeartSaidSunMoonMicrocosmDiscsOrbs Author:Ramana Maharshi
“Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.” ShouldMindGrowthCommunitySupremePower Of The MindPurification Author:Ramana Maharshi
“The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.” HeartJoySpiritCausesSleepGriefActivityPossessionEtcAffectedFainting Author:Ramana Maharshi