Inspiring quotes from hinduism and other sources

The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice. ~ Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda


“Intuition gives the soul knowledge of itself (Self-realization). Intuition also bestows clear understanding of truth and duty amidst the confusions of the world.” ~ Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

 

For infallible guidance man has to have a perfectly innocent heart incapable of evil. ~ Mahatma Gandhi


The Divine Radio is always singing if we could only make ourselves ready to listen to it, but is impossible to listen without silence. ~ Mahatma Gandhi


Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise. ~ Mahatma Gandhi


There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

"There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.” ~ Amit Ray


Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice whispering to me in the depths of my consciousness is saying exactly the same thing as the voice whispering to you in your consciousness. 'I want an earth that is healthy, a world at peace, and a heart filled with love.' It doesn't matter if your skin is brown or white or black, or whether you speak English, Japanese, or Malayalam - the voice, says the Gita, is the same in every creature, and it comes from your true Self. ~ Eknath Easwaran


We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness. ~ Eknath Easwaran

 

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ~ Confucius


'May we ever choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.' – Thomas S. Monson


“Kites rise on an opposing wind. ~ Chinese proverb


When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~ Peter Marshall


I know that truth alone gives life, and nothing but going towards reality will make us strong, and none will reach truth until he is strong. ~ Swami Vivekananda


The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. ~ Swami Vivekananda

 

You are a work in progress-anonymous

Lean freedom, is better then fat slavery-Aesop's Fables

Run away from any organization that demands you bury your heart and mind-anonymous

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children-Native American proverb

 

Self-awareness is yoga. ~ Nisargadatta


Awareness is the great non-conceptual perfection. ~ Dzogchen


When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. You can only experience the new when you are aware, when you are without thought. ~ Barry Long


Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness. ~ Eckhart Tolle

 

The belief that we were born, that we change, evolve, grow old and die is simply a belief to which the vast majority of humanity subscribes without realizing that they are doing so. It is the religion of our culture. ~ Rupert Spira


Emotions arise from thoughts which arise, in turn, from foundational belief structures about the nature of Reality and your own innate identity. ~ Metta Zetty


"The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story." ~ Byron Katie


The false self grows and thrives in unconscious being. When we are asleep to Being, our attention becomes entranced by mind—the vast array of ideas, images, beliefs, habits, opinions, and judgments that we have been conditioned to identify as self. ~ Adyashanti


“Ego is nothing more than the beliefs, ideas, and images we have about ourselves—and so it is actually”. ~ Adyashanti


When you awaken, you realize that the separate person you took yourself to be is just a construct, a mental fabrication. – Stephan Bodian

 

"To differentiate the thinking mind and awareness, one must arrive solely in awareness.

The thinking mind as the expression of awareness should be abandoned. When awareness is recognized, then the thinking mind is self-abandoned. Mind is changing, and awareness is unchanging. In this way, the two are differentiated.

Look at the sky, which is unchanging, and the clouds, which are changeable; clouds are like the thinking mind and the space is like rigpa, awareness.
The clouds change again and again, but space never changes. Awareness is both unceasing and unchanging." ~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche



'The mind must learn that beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness which does not change.' ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj



'Don't mistake the weather of your mind
for the sky of your being.'
~ Jeff Foster

 

"Consider a glass filled with muddy water. Though the nature of the water is pure and clear, when stirred, it becomes mixed with mud, and all we see is murky water.

In the same way, at the most basic level, our lack of mindfulness and awareness stirs up all manner of behaviors, thoughts, and emotions, blending and interfering with one another, so that the clear, luminous mind becomes clouded and confused. " ~ Dzongsar Khyentse rinpoche



"Who we are varies according to our awareness. When you are more aware, you are someone else than when you are less aware." ~ Dr. Frederick Lenz



“With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.” ~ Noah Levine

 

The Self, our Being, is awareness. ~ Sri Muruganar


To remain unconscious of Being is to be trapped within an ego-driven wasteland of conflict, strife, and fear that only seems customary. ~ Adyashanti



The false self grows and thrives in unconscious being. When we are asleep to Being, our attention becomes entranced by mind—the vast array of ideas, images, beliefs, habits, opinions, and judgments that we have been conditioned to identify as self. ~ Adyashanti


The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.~ Eckhart Tolle


"There is no conflict in you, the Self. If there is conflict, it is between thought and thought. As long as the sense of 'I' and 'other' is believed, conflict is inevitable,". ~ Mooji

 

"IF I BELIEVE THAT I AM SEPARATE, an individual, a separate entity and person, then I am insecure. So at the first level, the family level, I try and have a warm and loving family around me to make me feel secure.

Then, there is the tribal level. And if I can be “in with the tribe”, then I will be more secure. Then, there is the nation. And nations go to war with nations over that same self-centeredness or insecurity—divisions and separations." ~ Sailor Bob Adamson


To live and operate in the world, you may have to identify with something. Play with your identifications - don't let them rule you. ~ Sadhguru


Every social group is built on identifications. The basis of spiritual process is to learn to live without an identity. ~ Sadhguru


“All the misery on the planet arises due to a personalized sense of “me” or “us.” That covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence, in the end you always create misery. It’s as simple as that.

When you don’t know who you are, you create a mind-made self (the ego) as a substitute for your beautiful divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false self (the ego) then becomes your primary motivating force.” - Eckhart Tolle



“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.” ~ Eckhart Tolle



“Thoughts and feelings have preferences, make choices, like and dislike, seek and resist, praise and blame, hope and despair, judge and condemn, but our Self, Awareness, that which knows them, does not share their prejudices.

Awareness looks on all people and things alike, just as the sun shines on all objects equally.” ~ Rupert Spira

 

There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~ Mahatma Gandhi


A mind that is fast is sick, a mind that is slow is sound, and a mind that is still is divine. ~ Meher Baba


Human beings are naturally social and responsible when they act calm and rationally unless disturbed by self-centered emotions. ~ Madawela Punnaji


All impure thoughts or evil thoughts are emotional excitements. Good thoughts are calming thoughts. ~ Madawela Punnaji


We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states. ~ Tenzin Palmo


We're normally caught up in the current of our thinking, feelings and emotions. With awareness, we can observe it all without being swept away. This gives us access to something much vaster and deeper than our usual compressed minds. ~ Tenzin Palmo



"Awareness, or intelligence, is quite a different and separate category from the monkey mind.

The intelligence or consciousness has less speed and does not carry a burden. It also expects some hospitality. This particular intelligence expects to be accommodated.

Intelligence or awareness is therefore referred to as the rider, the herder, or the tamer who works with the ox, elephant and the monkey of mind.

Awareness regards the mind as its property. So intelligence or consciousness is the owner of monkey-mind. The idea is that the monkey is supposed to have been domesticated a long time ago, but somehow, we did not get around to it! So now we have this big project of setting a trap and trapping the monkey." ~ Chogyam Trungpa


Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead. ~ Ajahn Sumedho

 

This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage. ~ Carl Honore


“All negative thoughts – anger, fear, passion, compulsive craving -- tend to be fast. If we could see the mind when it is caught in such thoughts, we would really see it racing.

But positive thoughts like love, patience, tenderness, compassion, and understanding are slow - not turbulent, rushing brooks of thinking, so to speak but broad rivers that are calm, clear, and deep.” ~ Eknath Easwaran



When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond. ~ Eknath Easwaran


“In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.” ~ Plato


“When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.” ~ Amit Ray


"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