Wednesday, September 12, 2007
World Contemplations
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-Nanak, Mool Mantra ~1540 CE
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Bertrand Russell (Eminent Philosopher):
"I think if we are to feel at home in the World,
We shall have to admit Asia to Equality
in our thoughts.
Not only Politically, but Culturally.
What changes this might bring about I do not know,
But I am convinced they will be Profound,
and of the Greatest Importance."
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There is only One God, His name is Truth,
He is the Creator,
He fears none, He is without hate,
He never dies,
He is beyond the cycle of births and death,
He is Self Illuminated,
He is realized by His Kindness and Love.
He is True in the End,
He is True now.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
No one is my enemy
No one is a foreigner
With all I am at peace
God within us renders us
Incapable of hate and prejudice
Guru Nanak
“Kindly align my feet to where God is Not”
Nanak
The Lord is a Powerful, Eternal, Radiant Light, that Lights up the Universe.
-Guru Nanak
God’s Consciousness is Indestructible. Birth and death belong to the manifest Universe.
Guru Nanak quotes
“His Love brings eternal peace; meeting the One True God, Nanak sings His Glorious Praises.”
-Guru Nanak
By singing the Lord’s hymns I, a nobody, spread the Lord’s glory. Says Nanak, by praising His True Name I have obtained the perfect Lord.”
“O’Nanak I AM Awake in the Love and Glory of the Supreme Being”.
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“Through His Eternal Light, the One and only Lord has implanted within me, I have taken to complete Support of the Lord; Now I venerate Him every Moment.”
- Guru Nanak.
The seed of Truth will blossom forth in you, flowering in fruition imbued with His sublime essence, you shall never leave it again. No other earthly flavors can compare to it. Says Nanak, God is my Permanent Support.”
“When the Great Lord of the Universe shines His Mercy, He blends our Soul into Himself.”
-Guru Nanak
Says Nanak, the Saints merge into Celestial Bliss.”
Whoever has come, will have to rise up and leave. This world is a temporary sbode.
Guru Nanak quotes
One’s true home is obtained by serving the True God. Real Truth comes by being truthful. By falsehood and greed, no place of rest is found, neither here, nor hereafter.”
Guru Nanak quotes
Greed and worldly entanglements of this world deceive the deluded.
Guru Nanak quotes
When death hovers over your head, it will make you cry.”
Guru Nanak quotes
The virtuous souls dwell on the virtues of God. They keep their Lord in their remembrance, and they never suffer separation from Him.”
Guru Nanak quotes
The desires of the soul are fulfilled, deep within, when the Soul is drenched in His Love.”
Guru Nanak quotes
“Her Lord is permeating and pervading everywhere, beholding Him ever present, the soul enjoys His Love with intuitive ease.”
Guru Nanak quotes
The worthless Soul does not know its Lord, it is deluded, forgetting its Creator, Lord, it weeps and wails.”
Guru Nanak quotes
Through True Love, Our Soul merges with Him
Guru Nanak quotes
Those who have found The One True God within their Soul, the True Lord unites them in His Union.”
Guru Nanak
Whatever is pleasing to the Lord God, that alone comes to pass, nothing else can be done. Even by all sorts of clever tricks, He cannot be obtained, all grow weary by practicing cleverness.”
Guru Nanak quotes
Hereafter, where neither your children nor your spouse shall accompany you, the Name of the Lord shall emancipate you.”
Guru Nanak quotes
They have the jewel treasure in their own homes, but still, they are hungry. Those unlucky ones are far away from the Lord.”
Guru Nanak quotes
They have wasted away their whole lives in vain, the faithless cynics die regretting and repenting.”
Guru Nanak quotes
Those who have not obtained the True Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Almighty Lord, they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.”
Guru Nanak quotes
My True God, my True Lord is my Beloved, without Him, I cannot survive.”
Guru Nanak quotes
The Lord’s humble servant begs for the Lord’s Sacred Name, for the Lord’s Hymns, and for devotional worship of the Lord God.”
Guru Nanak quotes
The Lord has Taken His Servant Nanak as his Own, joining together, the Saints and Angels are singing the songs of joy and congratulations.”
Guru Nanak quotes
I ask for the Lord’s spiritual wisdom, and the Lord’s sublime sermon, through the Name of the Lord, I have come to know His True Value.”
Guru Nanak quotes
The soul obtains the supreme status, as the mind is brought under control, it recognizes its Beloved Creator, its Lord.
Deep within the Soul’s inner being, it is in love with its Lord.
Guru Nanak quotes
“If I Were an emperor and raise a huge army, and sit on a throne, issuing commands and collecting taxes - Says Nanak, all of this could pass away like a puff of wind. Seeing these, I might go astray and forget You, and Your Name would not enter into my mind.”
How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name? says Nanak, if I had hundreds of thousands of stacks of paper, and if ink were never to fail me, and if my pen were able to move like the wind, and if I were to read and recite the love for the Lord - even so, I could not estimate Your Value.”
Says Nanak, I am a sacrifice to those who are found to be True in The Lord’s True Court.”
He Himself unites us in His Union; there is no more separation. Says Nanak, I sing the Praises of my God; through Him, I have found Eternity.”
Those who Meditate on the Divine Name,
In Deep Contemplation,
The Lord Shines Forth His Vision,
Says Nanak.
At the Lord's Door, none of his requests are denied. Nanak is attuned to the Love of the Lord, whose Light pervades the entire Universe.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
When the mind accepts, and is satisfied with the One True Lord, then the consciousness becomes steady and stable. Then, one's food is the True Name, one's garments are the True Name, and one's Support, Says Nanak, is the True Name.”
“Nanak builds his house upon that site where there is no death, no birth, and no old age.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
The Lord is said to be the Greatest of the Great; His Kingdom is the Highest of the High. He has no color or mark; His Value cannot be estimated. Please show Mercy to Nanak, O’ God, and bless him with Your True Name.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
People serve the True God only when the fever of egotism has been eradicated. Says Nanak.
Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of the One who is the Support of every heart.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
True is His Empire, and True is His Command. True is His Seat of True Authority. True is the Creative Power which He has created. True is the world which He has fashioned. Says Nanak, sing His True Name; I am forever and ever a sacrifice to Him.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
“God Himself acts, and causes others to act; everything is in His Hands. He Himself bestows life and death; He is with us, within and beyond. Nanak seeks the Sanctuary of God, the Master of all destinies.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
In this world and in the world hereafter, radiant are the faces of those who cherish and enshrine the Glories of the True Lord. Twenty-four hours a day, they lovingly dwell upon His Glories; they are imbued with His Infinite Love. Nanak is forever a sacrifice to the Supreme Lord God, the Ocean of Peace.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Through Divine Contemplation of the Lord, one becomes perfect; Says Nanak, meditate on the True One.”
By various devices, and in so many ways, this world is enticed. They alone are saved, whom the All-powerful, Infinite Lord protects. The servants of the Lord are saved by the Love of the Lord. Says Nanak, I am forever a sacrifice to them.”
O Nanak, God's Flavor is sweet to the minds and bodies of those who have such blessed destiny written on their foreheads.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
The True Soul has led me to meet Him, and now I dwell in the Fear of God. Says Nanak, His Love is always with me.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Everyone cries out, More! More! .. How great should we call the Giver? His Gifts are beyond estimation. O Nanak, in his Abundance there is no deficiency; God’s Storehouses are filled to overflowing age after age.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
True is the Creator, True is His Word. True is our Lord and Master, and True His Support. So speak the Truest of the True. Through the True One, an intuitive and discerning mind is obtained. Nanak lives by singing and meditating on the One God, who is pervading within and contained amongst all.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
All that is seen is You, Lord, till the end of the expanse. Says Nanak, God has removed my doubts; I recognize God in all.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
The Divine Light within is revealed, Says Nanak, through intuitive understanding.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Says Nanak, they swim across this world ocean with the True Name of the Lord, the King above the heads of kings.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
The day and the sun shall pass away; the night and the moon shall pass away; the hundreds of thousands of stars shall disappear. He alone remains. Eternally Blissful. Nanak speaks the Truth.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
When the Great Giver gives, nothing at all is lacking. Says Nanak
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
The True devotees are happy and peaceful forever. They are absorbed in the Sound of His True Name.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Lord, You Yourself created the Universe; You created the play of duality of good and evil, and staged it.”
When the God is pleased and satisfied, Says Nanak, He bestows the Gift of His True Name.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Meeting the True One, Truth wells up. The truthful are absorbed into the True Lord. Intuitive understanding is obtained and one is welcomed with honor, through the Guru's Word, filled with the Fear of God. O Nanak, Then the True King absorbs us into Himself.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
What good is social class and status? Truthfulness is measured within. Pride in one's status is like poison - holding it in your hand and eating it, you shall die to Truth.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
O Nanak, the One Name is pervading deep within my mind; by God’s Grace, I receive it. In all colors and forms, God is All Pervading.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
As long as I walked along, carrying the load, I continued to pay the fine. But I threw away that bundle, when I met the Perfect God; O Nanak, then I became truly free.” Atharva Veda quotes
“O Nanak, some behold the Blessed Vision of the True God’s Presence, with love and affection, and conquering their ego, they meet with the Lord.”
O Nanak, it is so difficult to obtain this human life, the True God imparts this understanding.”
Guru Nanak quotes
“Through the God’s Instructions, Nanak has found peace, the Forgiving Lord has forgiven him.”
Guru Gobind Singh quotes
“O Nanak, without serving the True God, they are bound and beaten in the City of Death, they arise and depart with blackened faces.”
Guru Gobind Singh quotes
“O Nanak, those who intuitively serve their God, have perfect destiny.”
Guru Nanak quotes
O Nanak, those who are attuned to Truth are not separated, serving with Love and Innocence of a child, they merge into the Lord.”
“As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him outside?”
Guru Nanak quote
“Far from wife and son am I, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.”
Guru Nanak quote
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.”
Guru Nanak quote
O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the flower; night and day I thirst for them.”
Guru Nanak quote
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor do I belong to any caste”
Guru Nanak quote
From His brilliancy the cosmos is illuminated.”
Guru Nanak quote
Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.”
Guru Nanak quote
“Deep within, my Soul is attuned to His Love, intoxicated with delight, my enemies and sufferings are all taken away.”
Guru Nanak quote
Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are lovingly focused on the True One, they realize and understand themselves.”
Guru Nanak quote
Anyone, let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is sanctuary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude, who contemplates the Lord Supreme, attains supreme bliss.”
Guru Nanak quote
That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen, whatever seed is sown, ,a plant of that kind even comes forth.”
Guru Nanak quote
The husband receives his wife from God, he does not wed her according to his own will, doing what is agreeable to God, he must always support her ,while she is faithful.”
Guru Nanak quote
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, My One True Lord, He has shown me the Way.”
Guru Nanak quote
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river ,united with the ocean.”
Guru Nanak quote
We understand the Lord only when He Himself inspires us to understand Him.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
The One who is pervading everywhere does not die. Says Nanak, the Guru has revealed God to me, and now I see that there is no such thing as birth or death.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Those, unto whom You give Your consolation, God - pain does not even approach them. Says Nanak, I have found the True Gurul, he has shown me the Perfect, Supreme Lord God.”
- Atharva Veda quotes
Those blessed with good actions praise the Lord. O Nanak, they make God their spiritual teacher. In the early morning hours, a longing arises in their consciousness. They are attuned to a River of Life; His True Name is in their minds and on their lips.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
For the sake of it, you journey to sacred shrines and holy rivers; but this priceless jewel is within your own heart.”
-Guru Nanak quotes
While you are alive, conquer death, and you shall have no regrets in the end.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
You are my Companion; You are my Best Friend. You are my Beloved; I am in love with You. You are my honor; You are my decoration. Without You, I cannot survive, even for an instant.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
You are the Ocean of Water, and I am Your fish. Your Name is the drop of water, I am a thirsty sparrow-hawk.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quote
Your Face is so Beautiful, and the Sound of Your Words imparts intuitive wisdom.
It is so long since this sparrow-hawk has had even a glimpse of water.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quote
Please shower me with Your Mercy, O Lord God, that I may meditate on Your Name.
Servant Nanak begs for the dust of the feet of those who have found the True God.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Faith, contentment and tolerance are the food and provisions of the angels. They
obtain the Perfect Vision of the Lord, without which there is no place of rest.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quote
Give up your separateness, and you shall find peace; like water mingling with water,
you shall merge in divine in in Divine contemplation.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quote
The Soul cuts away all his bonds; O Servant Nanak, he is absorbed in the poise of intuitive peace.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Give me that understanding, by which I may meditate on You. I sing Your Glorious
Praises with each and every breath. Nanak takes the Support of the Guru's Feet.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
With each and every breath, Nanak sings the Lord's Praises. The Lord has covered my sins.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Blessed, blessed is the Lord God of servant Nanak; meeting Him, all my sorrows
and troubles have come to an end.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
The perfect God has dispelled all doubts. Remembering the Lord in meditation,
Nanak has found peace.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
O Nanak, the make your way as the tree of contentment, with flowers of faith, and fruits of spiritual wisdom. Watered with the Lord's Love, it remains forever green; through good deeds and meditation, it ripens.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Says Nanak, the Truth has been revealed to me. God has granted me the treasure; I have taken it and enshrined it within my heart.”
Atharva Veda quotes
O Nanak, some Behold the Blessed Vision of the True God’s Presence, with love and affection, conquering their ego, they meet with the Lord.”
Guru Gobind Singh quotes
O Nanak, it is so difficult to obtain this human life, the True God imparts this understanding.”
Guru Nanak quotes
O Nanak, those who intuitively serve their God have perfect destiny.”
Guru Nanak quotes
O Nanak, those who are attuned to Truth are not separated, serving the True God,
they merge into the Lord.”
Guru Gobind Singh quotes
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul,
for he who Contemplates the True Lord in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Guru Nanak
Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
Guru Nanak
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare
with an ant filled with the love of God.
Guru Nanak
Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind.
I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.
Guru Nanak
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
Guru Nanak
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the True God, my Lord, has shown me the Way.
Guru Nanak
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a God none can cross over to the other shore.
Guru Nanak
O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the flower;
night and day I thirst for them.
Guru Nanak
One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.
Guru Nanak
Sing the songs of joy to the Lord, serve the Name of the Lord, and become the servant of His servants.
Guru Nanak
Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Guru Nanak
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.
Guru Nanak
Entering the Sanctuary of the True God, you shall never die again. Says Nanak,
may I never forget You, Lord. This soul, body and breath are Yours.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Being Merciful, my Lord and Master has ended my coming and going to this world.
Meeting with the True One, Nanak has recognized the Supreme Lord God.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
The Giver of peace is eternally blissful.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quote
Serve your True Lord and Master, and you shall be blessed with true greatness. By Guru's Grace, He abides in the mind, and egotism is driven out. This wandering mind comes to rest, when the Lord casts His Glance of Grace.”
-Guru Nanak
O Nanak, without the God, there is no honor; without honor, no one is carried across.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Owing to ignorance of the rope, the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of God, this transient state arises of the individualized, limited, manifest aspect of the Soul.
Guru Nanak
O Nanak, in the end, all this vanishes like a dream!”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
No one invites him to come in and sit down he is like a crow in a deserted house. Caught in birth and death, separated from God for such a long time, the whole world is wasting away.”
Guru Nanak quotes
“The love of Maya has ruined the world, people die, to be re born, over and over again. People die to be re born, over and over again, while their sins steadily increase, without spiritual wisdom, they are deluded.”
Guru Nanak quotes
He blends all with Himself.”
Guru Nanak quotes
He is my Beloved Lord, the Life of the World for whom should I weep?”
Guru Nanak quotes
Remember in meditation the One who summons us; O Nanak, that day is drawing near! Meeting the Guru, we meet the Lord. He Himself unites us in His Union.”
O. People die over and over again; they are re-born, and make their rounds on the wheel of reincarnation.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
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Born because of the karma of their past mistakes, they make more mistakes, and fall into mistakes.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.”
Guru Nanak quotes
According to the karma of past actions, one's destiny unfolds, even though everyone wants to be so lucky.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quote
The One who is pervading everywhere does not die. Says Nanak, God has revealed this to me, and now I see that there is no such thing as birth or death.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
Remember in meditation the One who summons us; O Nanak, that day is drawing near! Meeting God, we meet the Creator. He Himself unites us in His Union.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
Guru Nanak
Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Gate (pronounced ‘gat-ae’)
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ParGate,
ParmaSumGate,
Bodhi Soha !
(Lotus Sutra Chant)
‘Gone,
Gone,
Gone.
Gone are all forms,
Gone is the Cause of all forms,
Gone is the Origin of the Cause,
Enlightenment!
Obesiance!’
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. • Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. • Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. • Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. • Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. • But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." Gautama Buddha
"All that I say is true, not false, because I see the triple world as it is. I see that the triple world is the world in which living beings have neither birth nor death; they do not appear or disappear, that it is the world in which I do not appear or from which I do not disappear, that it is not real or unreal, and that it is not as it seems or as it does not seem. I do not see the triple world in the same way as the living beings of the triple world do. I see all this clearly and infallibly. The living beings are various in their natures, desires, deeds, thoughts and opinions. Therefore I expounded the Dharma with various stories of previous lives, with various parables, similes, and discourses, in order to cause all living beings to plant the roots of good. I have never stopped doing what I should do. It is very long since I became the Buddha. The duration of my lives is innumerable, asamkhya kalpas. I am always here. I shall never pass away."
(The Buddha. Lotus Sutra, p. 243)
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Buddha
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha
Buddha Quotes
Buddha quotes:
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha quotes:
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
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A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
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Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
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Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
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As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
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A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
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Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
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He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concetrate the mind on the present moment.
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha quotes:
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
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Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings…that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
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Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha quotes:
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha quotes:
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
Buddha quotes:
To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha quotes:
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha quotes:
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
Buddha quotes:
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha quotes:
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha quotes:
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha quotes:
Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha quotes:
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
Buddha quotes:
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Buddha quotes:
We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
Buddha quotes:
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
Buddha quotes:
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.
Buddha quotes:
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha quotes:
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha quotes:
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.
Buddha quotes:
Born out of concern for all beings.
Buddha quotes:
A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha quotes:
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha quotes:
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
Buddha quotes:
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha quotes:
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Buddha quotes:
There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.
Buddha quotes:
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
Buddha quotes:
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Buddha quotes:
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha quotes:
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha quotes:
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else.
Buddha quotes:
Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.
Buddha quotes:
If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.
Buddha quotes:
Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.
Buddha quotes:
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha quotes:
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha quotes:
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha quotes:
All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
Buddha quotes:
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha quotes:
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha quotes:
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha quotes:
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Buddha quotes:
He is able who thinks he is able.
Buddha quotes:
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha quotes:
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha quotes:
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Buddha quotes:
Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
Buddha quotes:
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha quotes:
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
Buddha quotes:
What we think, we become.
Buddha quotes:
They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.
Buddha quotes:
To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
Buddha quotes:
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddha quotes:
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha quotes:
Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenished.
Buddha quotes:
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha quotes:
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha quotes:
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Buddha quotes:
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha quotes:
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha quotes:
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Buddha quotes:
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha quotes:
You are all the Buddha.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
Buddha
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Buddha
He is able, who thinks he is able.
Buddha
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Buddha
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Buddha
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Buddha
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
The tongue like a sharp knife It. kills without drawing blood.
Buddha
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Buddha
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Buddha
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha
What we think, we become.
Buddha
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
Sogyal Rinpoche
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Auspicious is the pacification of phenomenal metastasis, the pacification of all apprehending; There is no dharma whatsoever taught by the Buddha to whoever, whenever, wherever. Nagurjana.
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Upanishad and Bhagvad Gita Quotes
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Invocation
Om. May Brahman protect us both (the preceptor and the disciple)! May Brahman bestow upon us both the fruit of Knowledge! May we both obtain the energy to acquire Knowledge! May what we both study reveal the Truth! May we cherish no ill feeling toward each other!
Om. Peace! Peace! Peace!
Om. May the different parts of my body, my tongue, prana, eyes, ears and my strength and also all the sense—organs, be nourished! All, indeed, is Brahman, as is declared in the Upanishads. May I never deny Brahman! May Brahman never deny me! May there never be denial on the part of Brahman! May there never be denial on my part! May all the virtues described in the Upanishads belong to me, who am devoted to Brahman!
Yea, may they all belong to me!
Om. Peace! Peace! Peace!
O Lord Lead me from the unreal to the real.
Lead me from the darkness to light.
Lead me from death to immortality.
May there be peace, peace, and perfect peace.”
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Intuitive Knowledge,
Is The Great Deliverer,
It Is Omnipresent And Omniscient
It Includes The Past, The Present And The Future In The Eternal Now.
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-Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The OmniSpirit Lies in the Heart, and is the Source of Unchangeable Omnipresent Joy.
(Khandogya Upanishad).
That which cannot be expressed by speech, but by which speech is expressed-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.
That which cannot be apprehended by the mind, but by which, they say, the mind is apprehended—That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.
That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which the eye is perceived—That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.
That which cannot he heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived—That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.
That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an object—That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.
(Kena Upanishad)
There is neither this world nor the world beyond nor happiness for the one who doubts.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“One gradually attains tranquillity of mind by keeping the mind fully absorbed in the Self by means of a well-trained intellect, and thinking of nothing else.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, and in honor and dishonor; and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction
Bhagavad Gita quote
“The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“A person is said to have achieved yoga, the union with the Self, when the perfectly disciplined mind gets freedom from all desires, and becomes absorbed in the Self alone.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“Fix your mind on Me, be devoted to Me, offer service to Me, bow down to Me, and you shall certainly reach Me. I promise you because you are very dear to Me.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“One can become whatever one wants to be [if one constantly contemplates on the object of desire with faith].”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“Setting aside all noble deeds, just surrender completely to the will of God. I shall liberate you from all sins. Do not grieve.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“Hypocrisy, arrogance, pride, anger, harshness, and ignorance; these are the marks of those who are born with demonic qualities, O Arjuna.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
"Consciousness is eternal it is not vanquished with the destruction of the temporary body"”
Bhagavad Gita quote
“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.”
Bhagavad Gita quote
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Lao Tzu Quotes
(Taoism)
The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.”
Lao-Tse quote
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle -- this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.”
Lao-Tse quote
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao-Tse quote
Lao-tzu
The Way of Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)
Lao-Tzu quotes:
A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.
Lao-Tzu quotes:
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao-Tzu quotes:
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
Lao-Tzu quotes:
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
Lao-Tzu quotes:
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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~ A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao-tzu
- More quotations on: [Happiness]
He diminishes it and again diminishes it, till he arrives at doing
nothing (on purpose). Having arrived at this point of non-action,
there is nothing which he does not do.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
- More quotations on: [Body]
I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love,
The second is frugality,
And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
- More quotations on: [Simplicity] [Selfishness] [Desire]
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
- More quotations on: [Knowledge]
The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
- More quotations on: [Laws]
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
- More quotations on: [Desire]
To be worn out is to be renewed.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
To have little is to possess.
To have plenty is to be perplexed.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
- More quotations on: [Possessions]
To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
To produce things and to rear them,
To produce, but not to take possession of them,
To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,
To lead them, but not to master them -
This is called profound and secret virtue.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,
The man who is sorry over the fact will win.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), Tao Te Ching
The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
The good man is the teacher of the bad,
And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.
He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material,
Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.
Such is the essential mystery.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
Tao te Ching, 48. Lao-Tzu
Results from Poor Man's College:
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
Results from Internet Collections: alt.quotations Archives:
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), Tao te Ching
“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say "We have done this ourselves".”
“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”
“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy”
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still”
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.”
“Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.”
“Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.”
“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.”
“One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.”
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
Lao Tzu quotes
“The words of truth are always paradoxical.”
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
“To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'”
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
“One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.”
“He who is contented is rich”
“To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.”
“From caring comes courage”
“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it”
“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”
“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any”
“He who talks more is sooner exhausted”
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.”
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.”
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.”
“Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength”
“Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.”
“He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted”
“He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty”
Lao Tzu quote
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still”
Lao Tzu quote
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”
Lao Tzu quote
Misc. Quotes
"Thou Shalt love Thy Lord Thy God with all Thy Heart, with all Thy Soul, and all Thy Mind. And treat Thy Neighbor as ThySelf. This is your greatest Commandment."
Jesus
Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is CONSCIOUS: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception. Pure Consciousness therefore, is its Natural Goal.
H. P. Blavatsky
The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. OutBreathing causing Involution, causing all dimensions to come into existence, and InBreathing or Evolution, the souls returning Home through the progressive expansion of their consciousness, through the different dimensions.
H. P. Blavatsky
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
H. P. Blavatsky
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreated Deity.
H. P. Blavatsky
Therefore, man's outward shell passed through every vegetable and animal body before it assumed the human shape.
H. P. Blavatsky
Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
H. P. Blavatsky
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. ( Not to mention an obstinate addiction to thought in the vacuum of Pure Consciousness –w)
Bertrand Russell
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell ( ‘The Golden Rule’ Jesus)
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ( That’s what gives rise to Prophets -w)
Bertrand Russell
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. ( The greatest argument against reason and logic –w)
Bertrand Russell
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. (The inevitable recognition of the other dimensions of our universe –w)
Stanislav Grof
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
Stanislav Grof
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
Stanislav Grof
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
Stanislav Grof
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
Stanislav Grof
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness of a multidimensional Universe. (Last Paras of the Japji -w).
Stanislav Grof
Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.(When they will be confronted with the multidimensional truth –w)
Stanislav Grof
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
Stanislav Grof
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. (which we call prophets –w)
Stanislav Grof
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. (Deepak chopra et al.-w)
Stanislav Grof
Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality. (Of course many cultures already use sacred plants that we consider poisonous –w)
Stanislav Grof
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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What we are looking for is looking.
-will
(i.e. What we are looking for, is doing the looking.)
Of Billions of Forms
Of Billions of Forms
Make no mistake
Only One Thing Alive
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Only One
Only One
Being
Awake.
-will
The creator is to create NOT what is seen, but what will Be.
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This Moment
This Breath
This Awareness
This Experience
Now
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[Contemplate]
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Pure Consciousness
Blissful Radiance
Source of Creation
Conscious Light
Sound of Truth
Unabounding Love
Eternal Bliss
Forever
Now.
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[Contemplate]
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Divine Truth
Radiant Light
Pure Awareness
Joyfully Awake
Has Been
Will Be,
True
Forever
Now.
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-Virtual Mystik
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Thanks to all the Prophets for pouring their hearts out and blazing a trail through our consciousness , and the World Wide Web. (Thanks to Brainyquote.com, thinkexist.com, adigranth.com and....
..will continue.)
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Love to all
Will
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