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I am wedded to truth, not to consistency. Gandhi Frustration is attachment to a goal. Ram Dass Happiness is the way one goes, not something luminous at the end. Arthur C. Danto Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live. Einstein Even a learned man must bow before an illiterate Sage. The illiterate man is simply ignorant; the learned man is learnedly ignorant; the Sage is also ignorant, because there is nothing for him to know. Ramana Maharshi . What is real is what we regularly talk about ...When we create a new way of talking about the world, we naturally create a new world. Bruce Gregory, Harvard astrophysicist The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. Einstein The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Einstein For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character. Rudolph Steiner The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. Rudolph Steiner One experience is worth a thousand talks. Ajahn Brahmavamso In the actions of the best men others find their rule of action. The path that a great man follows becomes a guide to the world. Bhagavad Gita . He sets the seal of his divine nature to the grace he accords. Emerson, The Transcendentalist . View the other community for the best within it. Rabbi David Rossen. It is difficult to remain calm without losing power, but it is equally difficult to remain calm in the midst of activity. Koichi Tohei There is no creature in this world so absorbed in the outer life in the world as man; so man, with greater capability of knowing, knows least of all creatures. Hazrat Inayat Khan If it is zero degrees today and twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it tomorrow? An old conundrum A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision is expansive, but a supreme vision is all inclusive. Swami Tejomayananda, The Vision of Life The are two kinds of lives, one is the life of 'values' and the other is the life of 'valuables'. Swami Tejomayananda, The Vision of Life Actions are the louder expressions of thought. Swami Chinmayananda, The Vision of Life If I meet a man and blame him for his shortcomings, I rob myself of power to attain higher knowledge; but if I try to enter lovingly into his merits, I gather such power. Rudolph Steiner Look upon all suffering as growing pains.. Ajahn Brahmavamso Our present work may be great or small yet the important thing is to do it well. Swami Chinmayananda, The Vision of Life Man becomes high or low according to his deeds. Swami Chinmayananda, The Vision of Life Great minds discuss ideas. Mediocre minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. Swami Chinmayananda, The Vision of Life To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Zen is the 'spirit of the valley', not the mountain. The only Zen you find on the tops of moutains is the Zen you bring up there. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Adapt each one of your actions, and frame each one of your words in such a way that you infringe upon no one's free-will. Rudolph Steiner Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance A goal makes you go further than you would otherwise have gone. Ajahn Brahmavamso I've never met two miserable people who make each other happy. Fr. Laurence Freeman, Benedictine monk. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, I never go to bed without an hour, or half hour's previous reading of something moral, whereon to ruminate in the intervals of sleep. Thomas Jefferson Difficulty arises when you try to escape the experience of something. Ease is present when you are willing to stop and meet whatever has been haunting you. Gangaji You are free once you understand that your bondage is of your own making and you cease forging the chains that bind you. Nisargadatta Maharaj When you finally, completely, face fear itself, it is nowhere to be found. Fear can never survive total meeting with conscious awareness. Gangaji When you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill When someone respects you, it is not because you possess some virtues; it is because of their greatness. When you respect someone it shows your own magnanimity. Wise is the one who respects everyone. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul. William Blake Live life simply so that others may simply live. Gandhi To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions. Nisargadatta Maharaj The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts. Swami Chinmayananda. Every time you look into the face of fear, it disappears but if you keep looking to the shadow, it grows and grows. Swami Satyananda If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. W.C. Fields Be always calmly active and actively calm. Yogananda It's an old rule of logic that the competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth of what he says. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance The best shelter is in the silence of your soul. Yogananda You are the unchangeable Awareness in which all activity takes place. Always rest in peace. You are eternal Being, unbounded and undivided. Just keep Quiet. All is well. Keep Quiet Here and Now. You are Happiness, you are Peace, you are Freedom. Do not entertain any notions that you are in trouble. Be kind to yourself. Papaji Worries are simply little fears; put a hundred worries together and you have one big fear ... So repeat the mantram when you are worried, and it will change worry into confidence. Eknath Easwaran If you can see the obstacle in your meditation then you will see the obstacle in your life. Ajahn Brahmavamso Happiness is not a result to be attained through action, but a fact to be realised through knowledge. The sphere of action is to express it, not to gain it. Alan Watts Riches prick us with a thousand troubles for their acquisition, as many cares in their preservation, even more anxiety in their spending, and finally grief with their loss. St. Francis. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they are doing it. Theodore Roosevelt The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963. ... the best pleasures are those for which we do not plan, and the worst part of pain is expecting it and trying to get away from it when it has come. Alan Watts ... the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo!' and then laughs at itself for jumping Alan Watts Like a river, we appear to be - but never are - the same. Swami Ramananda, Hatha as a Tool for Self Discovery Look not thou on beauty's charming, Contemplation in its fullest measure is a rehearsal for death. For in letting all thoughts go we let the world go, we let possessions go, and lastly we let the body go!. Dr. Paul Brunton, Advanced Contemplation. There is a field beyond right thinking and wrong thinking. I will meet you there. Rumi Worship virtue instead of knowledge. Ajahn Chah A rock is only heavy if you pick it up ... The door of my heart is always open to you. Ajahn Brahmavamso You always feel safe and accepted in the presence of great teachers. Author unknown There will never be a moment more perfect than this one. Eckhart Tolle |
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