"It is wanting that keeps us alive"
-Dangerous Beauty
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it"
"If you think you have problems, look at somebody else's"
-Bill Norwood
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the
face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived
through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
~Eleanor Roosevelt
If you're wondering, most of the quotes I have are from daily Hindu Wisdom.
If you think you are free,
You are free.
If you think you are bound,
You are bound.
For the saying is true:
You are what you think.
-Ashtavakra Gita 1:1
That quote may as well be the only one on this entire page. If there is one thing I could tell everyone that is it. It embodies all that I belive.
Don't cling to your own understanding. Even if you do understand something, you should ask yourself if there might be something you have not fully resolved, or if there may be some higher meaning yet.
-Dogen
What one thinks continually, they become; what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon, and that with which it will be possessed, when it passes into the realm for which the other experiences of what it has gained here in the physical plane, must be used.
Edgar Cayce Reading 3744-5
Love yourself and be awake-
Today, tomorrow, always.
First establish yourself in the way,
Then teach others,
And so defeat sorrow.
To straighten the crooked
You must first do a harder thing-
Straighten yourself.
You are your only master.
Who else?
Subdue yourself,
And discover your master.
-from the Dhammapada
For, as has been given, it is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means.
Edgar Cayce Reading 1977-1
A friend is one who sees through you
and still enjoys the view.
Wilma Askinas
A man may have never entered a church or a mosque, not performed any ceremony; but if he realizes God within himself, and is thereby lifted above the vanities of the world, that man is a holy man, a saint, call him what you will...
-Vivekananda
In that unitive state there is neither father
Nor mother, neither worlds nor gods nor even
Scriptures. In that state there is neither thief
Nor slayer, neither low caste nor high, neither
Monk nor ascetic. The Self is beyond good
And evil, beyond all the suffering of the human
Heart.
-Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
It is all the same to him.
Man or woman,
Good fortune or bad,
Happiness or sorrow.
It makes no difference.
He is serene.
-Ashtavakra Gita 17:15
Do everything. One thing may turn out right.
-Humphrey Bogart
In the world people think they can attain glory by having cows and horses, elephants and gold, family and servants, fields and mansions. But I do not call that glory, for here one thing depends on another. Utterly independent is the Infinite.
-Chandogya Upanishad
"For all that ye may ever keep is just what you give away, and that you give away is advice, counsel, manner of life you live yourself." The manner in which you treat your fellow man, your patience, your brotherly love, your kindness, your gentleness. That you give away, that is all that ye may possess in those other realms of consciousness.
Edgar Cayce Reading 5259-1
Consider this amazing possibility:
You incarnated on this earth
just to experience the joy of being alive.
Caroline Myss and Peter Occhiogrosso
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Paul Tournier
Oh Lord, You know I have no friend but you
If Heaven's not my home
Oh Lord what would I do?
Angels have taken me to Heaven's open door
And I can't feel at home in this world anymore
From "Angels Among Us"
Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn
to live in harmony and peace with each other and with
nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
You�re never beaten until you admit it.
General George S. Patton, Jr.
"If you were going to die soon and had
only one phone call you could make,
who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?"
- Stephen Levine
"All that a man acheives and all that he fails to acheive
is a direct result of his own thoughts"
James Allen
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Our life is what our thoughts make it"
"Failure is the path of least persistence"
"The desire to succeed means nothing without the will to prepare"
For I have no bounds.
I am Shiva.
Nothing arises in me,
In whom nothing is single,
Nothing is double.
Nothing is,
Nothing is not.
What more is there to say?
-Ashtavakra Gita 20:14
Illness is not cured by saying the word "medicine," but by
taking medicine. Enlightenment is not achieved by
repeating the word "God" but by directly experiencing God.
-Sankara
�In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst.
In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title.
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.�
Ayn Rand
I am boundless space.
The world is a clay pot.
This is the truth.
There is nothing to accept,
Nothing to reject,
Nothing to dissolve.
-Ashtavakra Gita 6:1
Angels are powerful thought forms that help to hold the
world together. They are the thoughts of synthesis,
connection, and repair. To call on the angels is to move
our attention to a higher, more creative direction, to
invoke the structures of a more enlightened worldview.
-Marianne Williamson,
"Illuminata"
The moon is one,
but on agitated water it produces many reflections.
Similarly ultimate reality is one,
yet it appears to be many in a mind agitated by thoughts.
-Maharamayana
The Self cannot be known by anyone
Who desists not from unrighteous ways,
Controls not his senses, stills not his mind,
And practices not meditation.
None else can know the omnipresent Self,
Whose glory sweeps away the rituals
Of the priest and the prowess of the warrior
And puts death itself to death.
-Katha Upanishad
"Attachment is the mind stuck to an object"
Just as rivers flow from east and west
to merge with the one sea,
forgetting that they were ever separate rivers,
so all beings lose their separateness
when they eventually merge into pure Being.
-Chandogya Upanishad
Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.
-Matthew Flickstein, "Journey To The Center"
When we see that we have gone wrong, it is our duty to
retrace our footsteps and proceed again by the right path.
-Mohandas Gandhi
If he recites many teachings, but
--heedless man--
doesn't do what they say,
like a cowherd counting the cattle of
others,he has no share in the contemplative life.
-Dhammapada, 1, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Know the Self as lord of the chariot,
The body as the chariot itself,
The discriminating intellect as charioteer,
And the mind as reins.
The senses, say the wise, are the horses;
Selfish desires are the roads they travel.
When the Self is confused with the body,
Mind, and senses, they point out, he seems
To enjoy pleasure and suffer sorrow.
-Katha Upanishad
Finding freedom in this life,
The seeker takes nothing to heart,
Neither duty nor desire.
He has nothing to do
But to live out his life.
The master lives beyond the boundaries of desire.
Delusion or the world,
Meditation on the truth,
Liberation itself--
What are they to him?
-Ashtavakra Gita 18: 13-14
Albert Einstein Quotes:
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue.
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
It is high time that the ideal of success should be
replaced by the ideal of service.
There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
�Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.�
Mark Twain
"We cannot fully understand the universe. The simple fact is that we cannot even define space or time. They are both boundless, in spite of all we can do to limit them. We live in a box of space and time, which we have manufactured by our own minds and on that depends all our so-called knowledge of the universe. The simple fact is that we can never know all things, nor are we made to know them. Much of our lives must be taken on faith."
"The mind will make your body rich"
"If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it over?"
An evil deed, when done,
doesn't,like ready milk
come out right away.
It follows the fool,
smoldering
like a fire
hidden in ashes.
-Dhammapada, 5, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
"The smallest deed is better than the biggest intention"
"If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will"
"On attatchment: The tighter you sqeeze, the less you have"
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal"
"Life is about making some things happen, not waiting for something to happen"
"We are what we think"
"Each bird likes its own nest best"
"Ideas you believe are absurd ultimately lead to success"
"Every burden is a blessing"
"It is impossible to see thee angel until you first have a notion of it"
"A layman who has chosen to practice this Dhamma should not indulge in the drinking of intoxicants. He should not drink them nor encourage others to do so, realizing that it leads to madness. Through intoxication foolish people perform evil deeds and cause other heedless people to do likewise. He should avoid intoxication, this occasion for demerit, which stupefies the mind, and is the pleasure of foolish people."
-Sutta Nipata
From "365 Buddha: Daily Meditations," edited by Jeff Schmidt
"Desire and aversion are of the mind.
The mind is never yours.
You are free of its turmoil.
You are awareness itself,
Never changing.
Wherever you go, there you are.
Be happy."
-Ashtavakra Gita 15:5
From "The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita," by Thomas Byrom
"I honor the God and the Goddess,
The eternal parents of the universe.
The Lover, out of boundless love,
takes the form of the Beloved.
What Beauty!
Both are made of the same nectar
and share the same food."
-Jnaneshwar (also known as Jnanadeva)
From Teachings of the Hindu Mystics, � 2001 by Andrew Harvey
"Meditation is a better solution than medication"
"As a Buddhist monk my concern extends to all members of the human family and, indeed, to all sentient beings who suffer. I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction."
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
"Amassing great wealth is gradual, like the gathering of a
theater crowd.
Its dispersal is sudden, like that same crowd departing.
Wealth's nature is to be unenduring.
Upon acquiring it, do that which is enduring right away.
-Tirukkural 34: 332-333
"And no one knows you better,
Than your angels know you, dear,
For every day that you have spent on earth,
They too, were here."
-Leigh Engel,
"Angels Are Always There"
Actions motivated by attachment, aversion, or ignorance,
regardless of any external appearances,
are simply not Buddhist practices.
-Lorne Ladner,
"Wheel Of Great Compassion"
I am not detachment nor salvation,
Nor anything reached by the senses;
I am behold all thought and form.
I am everywhere, and nowhere at all-
I am Consciousness and Bliss.
I am Shiva! I am Shiva!
-Shankaracharya
From "Teachings of the Hindu Mystics
"If you ever felt love, then you certainly have been touched by an angel"
All sorrow comes from fear.
From nothing else.
When you know this,
You become free of it,
And desire melts away.
You become happy
And still.
Ashtavakra Gita 11:5
"The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita
Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise
In their own esteem, these deluded men,
Proud of their vain learning go round and round
Like the blind led by the blind. Far beyond
Their eyes, hypnotized by the world of sense,
Opens the way to immortality.
"I am my body; when my body dies,
I die." Living in this superstition
They fall life after life under my sway.
-Katha Upanishad
Excerpted from The Upanishads
Negative feelings, such as violence, are damaging to life,
whether we act upon them ourselves, or cause or condone them in others.
They are born of greed, anger, or delusion, and may be slight, moderate, or intense.
Their fruit is endless ignorance and suffering.
To remember this is to cultivate the opposite.
-The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 2:34
I see people who talk about religion constantly quarreling
with one another. Hindus, Mussulmans [Muslims],
Brahmos, Shaktas, Vaishnavas, Shaivas all quarrel with
one another. They haven't the intelligence to
understand that He who is called Krishna is also Shiva
and the Primal Shakti, and that it is He, again, who is
called Jesus and Allah. "There is only one Rama and He
has a thousand names."
-Ramakrishna
"To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best"
"No man will work for your interests unless they are his."
As a flawless crystal absorbs what is placed before it,
so the settled mind is transparent to whatever it
meets--the seer, the process of seeing, or the object seen.
-The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 1:41
"Anything you add to the truth, subtracts from the truth"