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.

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.

 

Relieve the suffering of Mother Earth’s children and you will find peace. - Anonymous.

 

 

Unless the mind becomes steady there cannot be Yoga. It is the wind of worldliness that always disturbs the mind, which may be likened to a candle flame. If that flame doesn't flicker at all, then one is said to have attained Yoga. - Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa.

Begin to weave and the Divine will provide the thread. - Old Proverb.

The one you are looking for is you. - Osho.

The habit of being inwardly in the calm presence of God must be developed, so that day and night that consciousness will remain steadfast. It is worth the effort; for to live in the consciousness of God is to be done with enslavement to disease, suffering, and fear. Just be with God; that is the be-all and end-all of life. If one resolves never to go to sleep at night without meditating and feeling the Divine Presence, into one's life will come happiness beyond all expectations. Effort is necessary, but that effort will make one a king enthroned in the kingdom of peace and joy. Time spent in the pursuit of extraneous material things is a waste of man's precious opportunities to know God. I am telling you this from my heart: Blessed is he who makes up his mind never to rest until he has found God. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

 

 

Kindness is never wasted. - Anonymous.

The older you get, the more you realize that it is okay to live a life others do not understand. - Anonymous.

In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir.

Love and kindness will always be louder. - Anonymous.

No matter how educated, talented, rich, or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything. - Anonymous.

Man conquers the world by conquering himself. - Anonymous.

The hardest battle we face is with ourselves. - Anonymous.

He who works with his hands is a labourer. He who works with his hands and head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist. - St. Francis of Assisi.

We ourselves feel what we are doing is a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. - Mother Theresa.

Anything that is unresolved within ourselves will keep manifesting itself in our lives until we heal it. - Anonymous.

When difficulties besiege you, know that the Divine Grace is with you. - The Mother.

Sometimes you don't realize the weight of what you have been carrying until you feel the weight of its release. - Anonymous.

The one you are looking for is you. - Osho.

Disinterest in the non-self must be very strong to do this. One's eagerness must be equal to that of a person kept underwater while trying to rise to the surface to breathe. - Ramana Maharishi.

No Siddha leaves the world without having given some truth to mankind. Every free Soul has to shed on others his light of God-realization. - Anonymous.

That sage who has solely engaged himself in drinking the nectar which is no other than the Brahman, the nectar which is the outcome of incessant mediation, that sage becomes the greatest of ascetics, Paramahansa, and a philosopher free of worldly taint, Avadhuta. By the sight of him, the whole world becomes consecrated. Even an ignorant man who is devoted to his service becomes liberated. - The Upanishads.

Happiness is the new rich. Kindness is the new cool. Health is the new wealth. Inner #peace is the new success. - Anonymous.

Gaudapada (Adi Shankara's Guru's Guru) in his treatise Agama Shastra (which is an exploratory vision of Manudkya Upanishad) gives an allegory: An empty pot has space inside it and outside it. The space inside may be an absolute state of bliss so far as the pot is concerned; however, the pot still separates the space inside it from the space outside. This pot must be shattered and broken to pieces so that the inner being melts into the oneness. When this barrier breaks, this layer of the pot (the space inside it) is no different from the space outside it - it just melts into oneness. The shell (layer of the pot) only acts as a tool that finally dissolves (breaks open) leaving the pure emptiness inside to surface and merge with the emptiness outside.

It is like a bucket of water dipped into the well. A rope is controlling the bucket through the pulley on top of the well. The bucket is full of water (Godliness) inside and is immersed in the water of the well (pure Godliness) on the outside; the bucket still "lingers" about in the water as it is tied to the rope suspended through the pulley. Even though the "water in the bucket" (the being of the one who is meditating) is the same as the "water in the well" (Godliness), the rope (ego) still dangles between the pulley and the water in the well. Meditation also takes you beyond (in Sanskrit this is called Thuriya or Shoonya) to a place where neither the meditator nor the meditation exists. It is the free flow state where the water in the bucket and the water in the well have melted into one another and there is no entity of either the rope or the bucket (or the well). Pure infiniteness, pure isness floats infinitely. - Ramakrishna Paramahansa.

Once upon a time in a faraway land, a young man went to the forest and said to his spiritual master, "I want to have unlimited wealth, and with that unlimited wealth, I want to help and heal the world. Will you please tell me the secret to creating affluence?" And the spiritual master replied, "There are 2 Godesses that reside in the heart of every human being. Everybody is deeply in love with these supreme beings. But there is a certain secret that you need to know, and I will tell you what it is. Although you love both Goddesses, you must pay more attention to on of them. She is the Goddess of Knowledge, and her name is Saraswati. Pursue her, love, her, and give her your attention. The other Goddess, whose name is Lakshmi, is the Goddess of Wealth. When you pay more attention to Sarasvati, Lakshmi will become extremely jealous and pay more attention to you. The more you seek the Goddess of Knowledge, the more the Goddess of Wealth will seek you. She will follow you wherever you go and never leave you. And the wealth you desire will be yours forever." There is power in knowledge, desire and spirit. And, this power within you is the key to creating affluence. - Anonymous.

Our only hope: to stop, to look, to understand, and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear. - Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Only in transcendence can there be transformation. When you keep rising from where you are right now, one day, you will be profoundly transformed. - Sadhguru.

Be still and the earth will speak to you. - Navajo Proverb.

God writes spiritual mysteries on our hearts, where they wait silently for discovery. - Rumi.

Doing as others told me, I was blind. Coming when others called me, I was lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found everyone, myself as well. - Rumi.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. - Ramana Maharishi.

Security is the most disillusioned amongst all desires. - Anonymous.

Be strong, you never know who you are inspiring. - Anonymous.

One of the marvels of the world is the sight of a soul sitting in a prison with the key in its hand. - Rumi.

Don't allow the world to make you bitter. Don't allow people and so-called loved ones to make you petty. Don't let your self-respect be measured in financial terms or personal gains. Don't ever judge people. Be happy. Be cool. Let the child within you and the madness always keep you young at heart. Always live life as though your Master is standing next to you, seeing you, observing you, nurturing you. - Ruzbeh Bharucha.

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self. There is nothing else to do. - Ramana Maharishi.

Do not think your money, relationships, or family is an insurance. The only insurance you have is to know how to keep yourself well on all levels. That is Yoga. - Sadhguru.

 

No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Thus the Zen Master warns his disciple: "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!" - Sheldon Kopp.

The present difficulty is that man thinks he is the doer. But it is a mistake. It is the higher power which does everything and man is only a tool. - Ramana Maharishi.

Look for the answer inside the question. - Rumi.

Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots. - Rumi.

If you want to awaken all of humanity then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift that you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. - Lao Tzu.

My dear child, he who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite. Never forget this promise of Sri Aurobindo and keep courage in spite of all difficulties. You are sure to reach the goal, and the more you keep confidence, the quicker it will come. - The Mother.

Act without expectation. - Lao Tzu.

Life begins where fear ends. Fear is impotent, it has never created anything. It cannot create anything because it has no substance, but it can destroy your whole life, it can exploit all of your energies. It will not allow you to move into any deep experience of life. - Osho.

Clinging to the known you will miss life. People live but go on missing life. It needs courage. It needs the courage to move with life wherever it leads because the paths are unchartered, there exists no map. One has to go into the unknown. Life can be understood only if you are ready to go into the unknown. - Osho.

We are all joined together in interdependence. Everything in existence is interdependent. You are dependent on others, others are dependent on you. It is a brotherhood, it is relatedness. Even the smallest grass leaf is related to the greatest star. If you can understand this, a tremendous love will arise from all that exists. - Osho.

Express your uniqueness in whatever you do. There has never been a person like you before, there is nobody else like you in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you, you are a masterpiece - unrepeatable. You are not here to copy others. You are here to add something unique. To seek and search for your uniqueness is a great thrill, a great adventure. - Osho.

Don't just grow old, grow up. Maturity has nothing to do with your life experiences. It has something to do with your inward journey., experiences of the inner, the more you go deeper into yourself, the more you grow up. Just as a tree has to send its roots deeper into the ground to grow higher. - Osho.

If

By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Desiderata

By Max Ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender

be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly;

and listen to others,

even the dull and the ignorant;

they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,

they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,

you may become vain and bitter;

for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;

it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs;

for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;

many persons strive for high ideals;

and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.

Especially, do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love;

for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,

it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,

gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,

be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,

no less than the trees and the stars;

you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you,

no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,

whatever you conceive Him to be,

and whatever your labors and aspirations,

in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,

it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. - Anonymous.

Don’t worry. There is nothing to be ashamed of if you have given your best to whatever you are doing, son. Only mankind is interested in results. Nature only wants to know your intentions. A dog just wags its tail happily. It is not bothered about whether its tail has wagged with finesses or whether it looks funny. It only knows how to love its master. It gives its best. It may make a mess of things regularly but then you don’t mind. Why? Because you know the dog’s heart is in the right place. It is giving its best to you. The same way Nature and God don’t judge you by your performance or your results. They just want to know whether your intentions are proper, your heart is in the right place and that you are giving your best to whatever you are doing. Every thing else is just pure statistics... it was ‘why you did-what you did’, that was more important than, ‘what came about what you did’ that really mattered to the heaven’s above. That the Angels heard the purity in the prayer rather than the prayer itself or the fancy words mouthed.. - Ruzbeh Bharucha.

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. - Lao Tzu.

A good traveller has no fixed plans. - Lao Tzu.

If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all. - Yogi Bhajan.

If you want change you have to invite chaos. - Anonymous.

It takes grace to be kind in cruel situations. - Anonymous.

Rub your eyes, and look again with love at love. - Rumi.

You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy, you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the Gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire: But control of the mind is better and more difficult. - Thayumanavar.

The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up. - Anonymous.

Love is the bridge between you and everything. - Rumi.

If it doesn't open, it is not your door. - Anonymous.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. - Rabindranath Tagore.

The same energy manifests in a million different ways: as a stone, a tree, an animal, a human being, or in its subtlest form - the Divine. - Sadhguru.

Don't be afraid to choose a different path than others. - Anonymous.

Don't wait to be rich to be happy. Happiness is free. - Anonymous.

A spiritual awakening is usually not pleasant. Often it feels like confusion, frustration, anger, sadness, grief, or being "out of place". A spiritual awakening can be uncomfortable and challenging because it's an intense time of personal growth. But despite how difficult it may feel, you are not going crazy; you are evolving. - Anonymous.

The entire universe is inside you. - Anonymous.

"Jonathan," he said, and these were the last words that he spoke, "keep working on love." - Richard Bach, form 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull'.

Your only true obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. - Richard Bach.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. - Sigmund Freud.

Like branches on a tree we all grow in different directions but our roots remain the same. - Anonymous.

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.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. - Richard Bach.

You are a series of mistakes that had to happen for you to find your you. - Atticus.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. - Viktor Frankl.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths, it has its pearls too. - Vincent Van Gogh.

To become learned each day add something. To become enlightened each day drop something. - Lao Tzu.

You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from your only limit is your Soul. - Gusteau, Ratatouille.

The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up. - Anonymous.

Love is the bridge between you and everything. - Rumi.

When things change inside you, things change around you. - Anonymous.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Nietzsche.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci.

We are all just walking each other home. - Ram Das.

The sage battles his own ego. The fool battles everyone else's. - Sufi Proverb.

Humble yourself or life will do it for you. - Anonymous.

Water that is too pure has no fish. - Zen Proverb.

My dear, in the midst of hate, I found there was, within me an invincible love. In the midst of chaos, I found there was within me an invincible calm. I realized through it all that in the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there is something stronger, something better, pushing right back. - Anonymous.

Everything affects everything. - Anonymous.

 

The highest purpose in life is that of service. Salute to another great Soul.

Quiet the mind and the Soul will speak. - Anonymous.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind. - J. Krishnamurti.

Enhance in yourself what you search for in others. - Anonymous.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress no matter how slow. - Plato.

From the little reading I had done, I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation. - Anonymous.

Loneliness is the absence of connection, not company. - Anonymous.

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates.

Effort well-directed breaks down all obstacles. Be steady in your aspiration and it is sure to be granted. Love. - The Mother.

After becoming President, I asked some of my bodyguard members to go for a walk in town. After the walk, we went for lunch at a restaurant. We sat in one of the most central ones, and each of us asked what we wanted. After a bit of waiting, the waiter who brought our menus appeared, at that moment I realized that at the table that was right in front of ours there was a single man waiting to be served. When he was served, I told one of my soldiers: go ask that man to join us. The soldier went and transmitted my invitation. The man stood up, took the plate, and sat next to me. While eating, his hands were constantly shaking and he didn't lift his head from the food. When we finished, he waved at me without even looking at me, I shook his hand and walked away! The soldier said to me, "Madiba, that man must be very sick as his hands wouldn't stop shaking while he was eating." "Not at all! The reason for his tremor is another", I replied. They looked at me weird and said to them, "That man was the guardian of the jail I was locked up in. Often, after the torture I was subjected to, I screamed and cried for water and he came to humiliate me, he laughed at me, and instead of giving me water, he urinated on my head. He wasn't sick, he was scared and shook maybe fearing that I, now that I'm president of South Africa, would send him to jail and do the same thing he did with me, torturing and humiliating him. But that's not me, that behavior is not part of my character nor my ethics. Minds that seek revenge destroy states, while those that seek reconciliation build Nations.′′ - Nelson Mandela (From Echeverría Martínez ′′ Chicali Wall ′′) via Geoof Pentz.

What is meant to be will always find its way. - Anonymous.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. - Khalil Gibran.

Eventually, everything connects. - Anonymous.

The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling. - Anonymous.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. - Lao Tzu.

It is only those who are in a constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning that you find the truth. - J Krishnamurti.

It is only when God Himself by His grace draws the mind inwards that complete surrender can be achieved. - Ramana Maharishi.

Education is not the preparation for life, it is life itself. - John Dewey.

Realization of the Self is the greatest help that can be rendered to humanity. A saint helps the whole of humanity, unknown to the latter. The help is imperceptible but is still there. - Ramana Maharishi.

God is not only in the heart of all, He is the prop of all, He is the source of all, their abiding place, and their end. All proceed from Him, have their stay in Him, and finally resolve into Him. Therefore, He is not separate. - Ramana Maharishi.

I live far off in the wild.

Where moss and woods
Are thick and plants perfumed.
I can see mountains rain or shine.
And never hear market noise.
I light a few leaves in my stove to heat tea.
To patch my robe I cut off a cloud.
Lifetimes seldom fill a hundred years.

Why suffer for profit and fame?

But do not ask me where I am going, as I am travelling this limitless world where every step I take is my home. - Dogen.

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out. - Anonymous.

If you have the choice between being right and being kind, choose being kind - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln.

The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment. - Tao Te Ching.

Creating without possessing. Acting without expecting. Guiding without interfering. - Tao Te Ching.

Your deeds are your monuments. - Anonymous.

The taller the bamboo grows, the lower it bends. - Chinese Proverb.

Where love reigns, the impossible may be attained. - Indian Proverb.

Whenever there is a craving, there is pain. - D. T. Suzuki.

What you possess, you lose. - Zen Proverb.

Still waters run deep. - Latin Proverb.

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.

If one abuses another or injures him the remedy does not lie in retort or resistance. Simply keep quiet. This quiet will bring peace to the injured but make the offender restless until he is driven to admit his error to the injured party. - Ramana Maharishi.

If we were all to sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for our lack of originality. - Kahlil Gibran.

Life knows no failure. Failure exists only for those who are always comparing themselves with others - Sadhguru.

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out. - Anonymous.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken. - Anonymous.

The less rigid your personality, the more powerful your presence. - Sadhguru.

Sanskrit words for Teacher based on their unique abilities:

• The Teacher who gives you information is called Adhyapak
• The one who imparts knowledge combined with information is called Upadhyaya
• The one who imparts skills is called Acharya
• The one who is able to give a deep insight into a subject is called a Pandit
• The one who has a visionary view on a subject and teaches you to think in that manner is called Dhrishta
• The one who is able to awaken the wisdom in you, leading you from darkness to light is called Guru

Sanskrit is perhaps the only language that has such a refined vocabulary to distinguish the different kinds of Teachers.

A Teacher takes responsibility for your growth.
A Guru makes you responsible for your growth.

A Teacher gives you things you do not have and require.
A Guru takes away things you have and do not require.

A Teacher answers your questions.
A Guru questions your answers.

A Teacher requires obedience and discipline from a pupil.
A Guru requires trust and humility from the pupil.

A Teacher clothes you and prepares you for the outer journey.
A Guru strips you naked and prepares you for the inner journey.

A Teacher is a guide on the path.
A Guru is a pointer to the way.

A Teacher sends you on the road to success.
A Guru sends you on the road to freedom.

A Teacher explains the world and its nature to you.
A Guru explains yourself and your nature.

A Teacher gives you knowledge and boosts your ego.
A Guru takes away your knowledge and punctures your ego.

A Teacher instructs you.
A Guru constructs you.

A Teacher sharpens your mind.
A Guru opens your mind.

A Teacher reaches your mind.
A Guru touches your spirit.

A Teacher is a systematic thinker.
A Guru is a lateral thinker.

One can always find a Teacher.
But a Guru has to find and accept you.

A Teacher leads you by hand.
A Guru leads you by example.

When a Teacher finishes with you, you celebrate.
When a Guru finishes with you, life celebrates.

One must be a saint and a hero to be a good teacher. One must be a great yogi to be a good teacher. One must have a perfect attitude to be able to exact a perfect attitude from the students. You cannot ask anyone to do what you don't do yourself. That is a rule. - The Mother.

Don't go searching for a Guru. When the pain of ignorance within you becomes a scream, a Guru will come in search of you. - Sadhguru.

If you are in a state of reaction, anyone or anything can take charge of your life. Conscious response is the way forward. - Sadhguru.

Desire and fear are obscuring and distorting factors. When the mind is free of them the unconscious becomes accessible. - Nisargadatta Maharaj.

One who enjoys his own self in himself without depending on what others say or what happens in the outside world, such a person is called a man of steady wisdom. - Sri M.

If you are willing to strive, there is a way to go beyond all the limitations that are considered human. - Sadhguru.

Disciple: How to deal with people?

Nisargadatta Maharaj: Why make plans and what for? Such questions show anxiety. Relationship is a living thing. Be at peace with your inner Self and you will be at peace with everybody.

Horoscopes have no importance for those who take up yoga, because the influence that works through yoga is much more powerful than the influence of the stars. - The Mother.

If you are willing to strive, there is a way to go beyond all the limitations that are considered human. - Sadhguru.

An aimless life is always a miserable life. - The Mother.

He is the Father, Mother, Guru, Friend, Creator, Preserver, Destroyer - everything. Indeed, He is everything and everything is in Him. There is nothing but Him. - Anandamayi Ma.

Whatever you are, whatever you are exposed to, pick up the best from every situation. Let not life's experience go waste. - Sadhguru.

The one who weighs you with your troubles is your burden. But the one who truly loves you will set you free. - Rumi.

Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. - Ephesians.

Everywhere, in all domains and always eternally everything will be possible. - The Mother.

 

The more one knows the less one pronounces judgment on things. - The Mother.

This is a good time to break the status quo of who you are and see if you can transform yourself into a better human being. - Sadhguru.

The great disorder in the world would be mostly neutralized if the mind could admit that it did not know. - The Mother.

When you finally realize that nothing is permanent in this life, you will become more tolerant, more forgiving, and less judgemental. - Anonymous.

A really mature person cannot be serious, there is nothing to be serious about. The whole of life is fun, it is a play, a play of consciousness. And that's what meditation reveals to you - that the whole of life is a beautiful play of energy. The same energy is in the trees, in the stars, in the rivers, in the mountains, in you, in animals. It is the same energy dancing in different forms. We in the East have called it 'Leela'. Leela means God's play. - Osho.

Sometimes we do the wrong things for the right reasons. - Mr. Ping.

The more we are humble better it is for us. - Ramana Maharishi.

It is never too soon to begin, never too late to continue. - The Mother.

Never complain of the behaviour of anyone, unless you have the power to change in his nature what makes him act in this way. - The Mother.

Life isn't about getting and having, it is about giving and being. - Kevin Kruse.

You find all by losing all. - Anandamayi Ma.

Freedom has so many concepts. If you really want to enjoy freedom, you should first figure out that you are bound. Many people are bound but think they are free. To understand the bondage, the chains with which we are bound is the first step to free oneself. - Sri M.

Detaching yourself from all that makes you restless means detaching from all such thoughts. The origin of all your emotions is only thought and if you decide not to entertain these thoughts that create restlessness then those thoughts will let away. Please remember that your life is only what your mind gives attention to! The only attention that does not create any emotion is attention to the silence within your meditation. - Anonymous.

And that is the role of the Guru - to bring you to a point where you can say, "It is obviously true, what is the big deal?" But before you can complete your sentence, you will find that He has vanished. - Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Devotion is a dimension that will allow you to sail across even if you do not know the way. - Sadhguru.

It is all right if the world thinks you are weird. Everyone is different, so everyone is weird in someone's eyes. Happily weird or miserably weird - your choice. - Sadhguru.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning but that does not make you who you are, it is the rest of it - who you choose to be. - Anonymous.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop.

Yesterday I was clever. So I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise. So I am changing myself. - Rumi.

The best students are those who want to know, not those who want to show. - The Mother.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach.

The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or tear up the pages. - Richard Bach.

The child does not worry about his growth, he simply grows. - The Mother.

Strange isn't it? You know yourself better than anyone else, yet you crumble at the words of someone who hasn't even lived a second of your life. Focus on your own voice, it is the only one that matters. - Anonymous.

When you feel you know nothing then you are ready to learn. - The Mother.

Lord, we pray to Thee:

May we understand better why we are here.

May we do better what we have to do here.

May we be what we ought to become here.

So that Thy will be fulfilled harmoniously.

God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state. Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your mind to the One Self radiating in the heart of your every being. For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-inquiry is the one direct and immediate way. - Ramana Maharishi.

Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you helping and guiding you. He is the companion who never fails, the friend whose love comforts and strengthens. Have faith and He will do everything for you. - The Mother.

 

The only response that never fails is the Divine' s. The only love that never fails is the Divine' s. - The Mother.

The Rungs of Love
By Mother

At first one loves when one is loved.

Nest one loves spontaneously but one wants to be loved in return.

Then one loves even if one is not loved, but still one wants one's love to be accepted.

And finally one loves purely and simply, without any other need of joy than that of loving.

You are that - here and now. That is the master key for solving all doubts. The doubts arise in the mind. The mind is born of the ego. The ego rises from the Self. Search the source of the ego and the self is revealed. That alone remains. - Ramana Maharishi.

If the Supreme Consciousness got angry over the defect of men, humanity would long since have ceased to be. - The Mother.

Freedom does not come from outer circumstances but from inner liberation. Find your Soul, unite with it, let it govern your life and you will be free. - The Mother.

When man will be disgusted with the falsehood in which they live, then the world will be ready for the reign of the Truth. - The Mother.

 

 

In order to live free and happily, you just sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. - Richard Bach.

It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear. - The Mother.

Happiness has nothing to do with success. - Osho.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. - Richard Bach.

To be above offence or insult makes one truly great. - The Mother.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. - Richard Bach.

We should be in no other service but in God's alone. - The Mother.

The moment you start looking for the Self and go deeper and deeper, the real Self is waiting there to take you in. - Ramana Maharishi.

To will what God wills - that is the supreme secret. - The Mother.

Let this be our need in life, to realize the Divine. - The Mother.

When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm. - African Proverb.

To become conscious of the Divine Love, all other love must be abandoned. - The Mother.

Our trust in the Divine must not depend upon outer circumstances. - The Mother.

Self-mastery is the greatest conquest; it is the basis of all enduring happiness. - The Mother.

True love stories never have endings. - Richard Bach.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach.

Your friends will know better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. - Richard Bach.

All difficulties are solved by taking rest in the Divine arms, for these arms are always opened with love to shelter us. - The Mother.

Turn towards the Divine, all your suffering will disappear. - The Mother.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation. - Albert Einstien.

Without the Divine life is a painful illusion, with the Divine all is bliss. - The Mother.