There is no easy way out. There is no shortcut home. - Robert Tepper.

Remember, there is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future. - Anonymous.

Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect. Our lives become beautiful because we put our hearts into whatever we do. - Sadhguru.

First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi.

 

Then life is sweet, and death a dream

When Thy Song flows through me.

Then health is sweet, and sickness a dream

When Thy Song flows through me.

Then praise is sweet, and blame a dream

When Thy Song flows through me.

Then life is sweet, and death a dream

When Thy Song flows through me. 

- Paramahansa Yogananda.

Read a little, Meditate more. Think of God all the time. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Do all your duties, but keep your mind on God. Live with all - with wife, and children, Father and Mother - and serve them. Treat them as if they were very dear to you, but know in your heart of hearts that they do not belong to you. Everything belongs to God alone. A maidservant in the house of a rich man performs all the household duties, but her thoughts are fixed on her own home. She brings up master’s children as if they were her own. She even speaks of them as ‘My Rama’ or ‘My Hari'. But in her own mind, she knows very well that they do not belong to her at all. - Bhagwan Sri Ramakrishna Dev.

The mind turned outwards results in thoughts and objects. Turned inwards it becomes itself, the Self. - Ramana Maharishi.

The mind is an endless game. You should not play it all the time. - Sadhguru.

 

 

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. - Khalil Gibran.

To be calm is the greatest asset in the world. It's the greatest siddhi, the greatest power you can have. If you can only learn to be calm you will solve every problem. This is something you must remember. When you are perfectly calm, time stops. There is no time, karma stops, samskaras stop. Everything becomes null and void. For when you are calm you are one with the entire energy of the universe and everything will go well with you. To be calm means you are in control. You're not worried about the situation, the outcome - what is going to happen tomorrow. To be calm means everything is alright. There is nothing to worry about, nothing to fret over. This is also the meaning of the biblical saying, "Be still and know that I am God." To be calm is to be still. The only spiritual life you need is not to react. - Anonymous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

True religion (Soul/Spirit science) is entirely transcendental. Every being that is in the universe has the potentiality of transcending the senses; even the little worm will one day transcend the senses and reach God. No life will be a failure; there is no such thing as failure in the universe. A hundred times man will hurt himself, a thousand times he will tumble, but in the end, he will realize that he is God. We know there is no progress in a straight line. Every Soul moves, as it were, in a circle, and will have to complete it, and no Soul can go so low but there will come a time when it will have to go upwards. No one will be lost. We are all projected from one common centre, which is God. The highest as well as the lowest life God ever projected, will come back to the Father of all lives. "From whom all beings are projected, in whom all live, and unto whom they all return, that is God." - Swami Vivekananda.

Like the lotus flower, we too have the ability to rise from the mud bloom out of the darkness and radiate into the world. - Anonymous.

Bad chapters can still create great stories. Wrong paths can still lead to the right places. Failed dreams can still create successful people. Sometimes it takes losing yourself to find yourself. - Anonymous.

Being a leader does not mean dominating the situation. It means empowering people to do what they would not have imagined possible. - Sadhguru.

Every time you listen to a philosopher or spiritual teacher and take their values, you trust "their" process. Ironically the highest place they can ever get you to is to trust "your" (own) process. Why not cut to the chase and trust your process and trust "the" process as it unfolds in you, for you, as you, and through you. - Nithya Shanti.

People are dedicated to their lifestyle, not their life. Once you are dedicated to your lifestyle, you get enslaved to how much you earn. - Sadhguru.

If I say “Buddha,” today most people think of Gautama the Buddha. Gautama was not the only Buddha. There were many before him, many at that time, and many more after him. Buddha is not his name. His name was Gautama Siddhartha. He became a Buddha. The word "Bu" means buddhi or the intellect. One who is above his intellect is a Buddha. There is probably no one in the world who has not heard of Gautama's name. Though there have been many Buddhas, his name has lived on. He has been one of the greatest spiritual waves and probably the most successful spiritual teacher on the planet. In his own lifetime, he had forty thousand monks and this army of monks went out to bring a spiritual wave. He did not do anything very new as such, but he offered spirituality to society in the way that it works. Till then, the spiritual process was offered only in the Sanskrit language in that part of the world and Sanskrit was available only to a certain community of people. Others were barred from learning it because this language was seen as the key to the Divine. For the first time, Gautama spoke in Pali, which was the common language of the day. He opened up the floodgates of spirituality for all kinds of people. - Sadhguru.

 

There is no need to think outside the box. Simply, realize there is no box. - Paramshanti.

Life is so much simpler when you stop explaining yourself to people and just do what works for you. - Anonymous.

I saw the Teacher sitting under a tree. He was a young man of sixteen, and the disciple was an old man of eighty. The preaching of the Teacher was silence, and the doubts of the disciple departed. - Old Sanskrit Verse.

Take a moment. Understand the value you hold. - Anonymous.