True prayer is an expression of the soul, an urge from the soul. It is a hunger for God that arises from within, expressing itself to Him ardently, silently. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Fear

By Khalil Gibran

It is said that before entering the sea

a river trembles with fear.

She looks back at the path she has traveled,

from the peaks of the mountains,

the long winding road crossing forests and villages.

And in front of her,

she sees an ocean so vast,

that to enter

there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.

But there is no other way.

The river can not go back.

Nobody can go back.

To go back is impossible in existence.

The river needs to take the risk

of entering the ocean

because only then will fear disappear,

because that’s where the river will know

it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,

but of becoming the ocean.

Who am I? What do I really enjoy doing? How can I serve people using what I really enjoy doing? What is life all about? Is it about me? Is it about others? How important is money? The answer to all these questions is more important before we care about any degree. The whys are far more important the hows and whats. Figure out your whys. - Anonymous.

Be thankful for closed doors, detours, and roadblocks. They protect you from paths and places not meant for you. - Anonymous.

When a man becomes a little wiser, he will not complain about anything and will take the things the Divine sends him as a manifestation of His all-compassionate Grace. The more surrendered we are, the more we shall understand. The more grateful we are the happier we shall be. - The Mother.

Being a seeker of truth means refusing to make assumptions about things that you do not know. - Sadhguru.

If your work is about creating something that you truly care for, there is no need to balance work and life - life is work, and work is life. - Sadhguru.

Virtue is the only friend that follows us beyond the grave. Everything else ends with death. - Swami Vivekananda.

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you are looking for something outside. The silence is accessible to you right now, inside the centre of your own being. - Ramana Maharishi.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. - Swami Vivekananda.

Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now. - Swami Sri Yukteshwar Giri.

Just as a piece of iron, which had been covered with the dust of centuries, might be lying near a magnet all the time, and yet not be attracted by it, but as soon as the dust is cleared away, the iron is drawn by the magnet; so, when the human soul, covered with the dust of ages, impurities, wickedness, and sins, after many births, becomes purified enough by these forms and ceremonies, by doing good to others, loving other beings, its natural spiritual attraction comes, it wakes up and struggles towards God. - Swami Vivekananda.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner. - Ramana Maharishi.

One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light, but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as the virtuous. - Bhagwan Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa.

Work hard. Discipline yourself. Build your character. Endure to the end. Realize yourself Self. And be free. - Swami Trigunatitananda.

How easy the spiritual path is if you give even a little time each day to meditation. Meditate intensely, morning and evening. Even fifteen minutes of meditation is better than no time at all. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

"A mother has several children, to one she has given a toy, to another a doll, to a third some sweets, so that absorbed in these things they forget their mother. But among them, the child who throws aways his playthings and cries after the mother, 'Where is my mamma?' - draws her to himself. She runs quickly to him and takes him up in her arms and soothes him. So, O Man! You are absorbed in the thoughts of lust and greed. When you throw them off and cry for the Divine Mother, She will come to you and take you up in her arms." - Bhagwan Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa.

Staying young means being willing to learn, evolve, and be open to life. - Sadhguru.

If you want to go beyond your compulsive tendencies, the only way is to become conscious. - Sadhguru.

Indian culture produced phenomenal human beings because education was not about learning things but enhancing the human being. If human beings are sufficiently enhanced, they are able to learn whatever they want. - Sadhguru.