“You should know love is not just an emotion. It is your very being, it is the core of your existence. So there is not a single being on this planet who is devoid of love. Because you are made up of it.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“If we were to design an AI program to read all the texts and scriptures of all the great religious and spiritual traditions over the last 3000 years or so and were to ask it to distill the essence of all these texts into a single sentence, one of its versions would read something like this: peace and happiness are the very nature of our being and we share our being with everyone and everything.“

— Rupert Spira on World Religion Day, 3rd Sunday of January

“I wonder what we mean by a new year.

Is it a fresh year, a year that is totally afresh, something that has never happened before?…

This is rather an important question, if you will follow it – to turn all the days of our life into something which you have never seen before. That means a brain that has freed itself from its conditioning, from its characteristics, from its idiosyncrasies and the opinions, and the judgements, and the convictions.

Can we put all that aside and really start a new year? It would be marvelous if we could do that…

Can we change the whole direction of our lives? Is that possible?…

Can we drop all that and start anew with a clean slate and see what comes out of that, with our hearts and minds?“

— Jiddu Krishnamurti on the New Year, Madras, 1st January, 1985

“This vast literature…Upanishads and their commentaries and sub commentaries and sub sub commentaries and multiple magnificent structures of philosophies built upon it…they all reduce to OM and especially the SILENCE AT THE END OF OM.”

— Swami Sarvapriyananda