“I traveled throughout India trying to find someone who knew God. Such souls are rare. All the teachers I met told me about their beliefs. In spiritual matters I was determined to never be satisfied with words about God. I wanted to experience Him. What I am told has no meaning for me unless I experience it.

Once I was talking with a friend of mine, a broker, about the saints of India. He did not share my enthusiasm. “All these so called saints are fakes,” he said. “They don’t know God.”

I didn’t argue, I changed the subject, and we started to talk about the brokerage business. When he had told me quite a great deal about it, I said smoothly “Do you know there is not a single reliable broker in Calcutta? They are all dishonest.”

“What do you know about brokers?” he retorted angrily.

“Exactly,” I replied. “What do you know about Saints?” He couldn’t answer. “Don’t dispute what you don’t know about” I went on good naturedly. “I know nothing about the brokerage business, and you don’t know anything about saints.”

….Most people become self-satisfied about what they read of Truth, without ever having experienced it. In India, we do not seek spiritual guidance from someone just because he has a theological degree, nor do we seek from those who have studied the scriptures without experiencing their truths. We are taught to recognize the difference between a man’s sermon and his life; he must demonstrate that he has experienced what he has learned.”

-Paramahansa Yogananda

“Let your speech be true and sweet.”

–Shri T. Krishnamacharya

http://www.boredpanda.com/amazing-places/

Incredible pictures of 22 places around the world.

http://www.drivenachodrive.com/

A interesting blog. “At the end of 2011 we quit our jobs and set off in our 1984 Volkswagen Vanagon, “Nacho”. Our plan? To circumnavigate the globe, slowly, while discovering culture, food, recreation, and emergency roadside Volkswagen maintenance.”

Their reading list:

http://www.drivenachodrive.com/our-essential-overlanding-reading-list/

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/how-money-affects-morality/?partner=rss&emc=rss

“Human history is full of examples of money’s ability to weaken even the firmest ethical backbone.”

“Money sows mistrust. It ends friendships. Experiments have found that it encourages us to lie and cheat. As Karl Marx, the scourge of capitalism, noted, ‘‘Money then appears as the enemy of man and social bonds that pretend to self-subsistence.’’

“A new study by researchers in organizational behavior from Harvard University and the University of Utah suggests an entirely different dynamic: the simple idea of money changes the way we think – weakening every other social bond.”

http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/world/lost-civilization-in-cambodia-20130613-2o5v2.html?selectedImage=9

“Sydney University Professor Damien Evans is leading several teams of archaeologists to the discovery of an entire Ankor city in the Siem Reap region of Cambodia. Using new maps and LIDAR to discover previously unknown sites where previously only a few isolated temples were known to be. The holy plateau region known as Phnom Kulen was also one of the last holdouts of the Khmer Rouge and is still heavily landmined with many of the ex Khmer Rouge villagers bearing the scars of mine injuries.”