Inspiring quotes from hinduism and other sources

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::nods:: The Beatitudes have always been one of my favourites.

 

Let us live happily, without hate amongst those who hate. Let us dwell unhating amidst hateful men.
Let us live happily, in good health amongst those who are sick.
Let us dwell in good health amidst ailing men.
Let us live happily, without yearning for sensual pleasures amongst those who yearn for them.
Let us dwell without yearning amidst those who yearn.
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.

- The Buddha
Dhammapada 197-200

 

'True prayer is absent of all desires"- My Zen Meditation teacher...though I'm sure he was just rephrasing something else...

 

The Lord is the operator; we are
But his innumerable instruments.
May we, in our consciousness, realize
The bliss he alone can give us.

-Shvetashvatara Upanishad

 

It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out."

http://neemkarolibaba.com/content/view/40/39/

 

The adorable one who is seated
In the heart rules the breath of life.
Unto him all the senses pay their homage.
When the dweller in the body breaks out
In the freedom from the bonds of flesh, what remains?
For this Self is supreme!

-Katha Upanishad

 

Excerpted from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna p.456

The Master Said:

"To love only members of the Brahmo Samaj
or of one's own family is Maya;
to love one's own countrymen is Maya.
But to love the people of all countries,
to love the members of all religions, is Daya (compassion).
Such love comes from love of God, from Daya."

 

Well Savage garden beauty you seem to have kept this thread alive ?



"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but
to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength.
Let me not cave in." - Rabindranath Tagore

 

I guess it is its fate to stay around....you invited a genuine quote whore to it lol

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The intense desire for God-realization is itself the way to it.

-Sri Anadamayi MM

 

Yet hazardous and slow is the path to the Unrevealed, difficult for physical man to tread. But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from the fragment's cycle of birth and death, for their consciousness has entered into me.

-Bhagavad Gita 12:5-7

 

wut enter U?

 

You are the clear space of awareness,
Pure and still,
In whom there is no birth,
No activity,
No "I."

You are one and the same.
You cannot change or die.

You are in whatever you see.
You alone.

Just as bracelets and bangles
And dancing anklets
Are all of the same gold.

-Astavakra Gita 15:13-14

 

"The universe is loved not for its own sake, but because the Self lives in it.

The gods are loved not for their own sake, but because the Self lives in it.

Creatures are loved not for their own sake, but because the Self lives in it.

Everything is loved not for its own sake, but because the Self lives in it."

-Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

 

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream - they'd be dead in two weeks. - William S. Burroughs.

 

When a person is devoted to something with complete faith, I unify his faith in that. Then, when his faith is completely unified, he gains the object of his devotion. In this way, every desire is fulfilled by me. Those whose understanding is small attain only transient satisfaction: those who worship the gods go to the gods. But my devotees come to me.

-Bhagavad Gita 7: 21-23

 

I thought this was bhakti-like:

There is a paradise that can be found
A better life to bring us round
And all we really need to do
Is see the world like lovers do

I want to take it easy, take it slow
To catch a fire and let it go
I want to give myself to you
So we can live like lovers do

Like lovers do, I want to feel that way
Like lovers do, they lose themselves for days
And I need to feel that way

I can hear you thinking what I feel
I know that what weve got is real
And all we need to get us through
Is just to live like lovers do

Like lovers do, I want to feel that way
Like lovers do, they lose themselves for days
And I need to feel, I need to feel that way
Give me strength to give myself to you
Like lovers, lovers do- "Like Lovers Do"- Heather Nova

 

When he is seen within us and without,
He sets right all doubts and dispels the pain
Of wrong actions committed in the past.

-Mundaka Upanishad


Without love in the heart,
Life is like a sapless tree in a barren desert.

What good is a body perfect in outer ways,
If inwardly it is impaired by lack of love?

With love enshrined in the heart, one lives.
Without it, the body is but bone encased in skin.

-Tirukkural 8:78-80

 

Where do you search me, friend,
I am with you
Not in the holy land, nor in the lord's idol
Neither in the life of solitude
Not in temples, nor in mosques
Neither in Kaba nor on Kailash
I am with you o friend
I am right with you
Not in rosaries, nor in penance
Neither in fasting and prayer,
Not in rituals or in actions
Neither in renunciation or in yoga,
Neither in the vital force nor in the food
Not even in the cosmos
Neither in the womb of Nature
Not in the breath of the breath
Seek earnestly and discover me
In but a moment's quest
Says Kabir, Listen with care
Where your faith is, I am there.

 

"In my world, nothing ever goes wrong."

"It is your restlessness that causes chaos."

"Love is will, the will to share your happiness with all. Being happy, making happy, this is the rhythm of love."

"If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation."

"The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world."

"Nothing is done by me, everything just happens I do not expect, I do not plan, I just watch events happening, knowing them to be unreal."

"Everybody dies as he lives. I am not afraid of death, because I am not afraid of life. I live a happy and shall die a happy death. Misery is to be born, not to die."

"You do not have any problems, only your body has problems...In your world, nothing stays, in mine nothing changes."

"My stand is clear: produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others, before you think of yourself. Only a selfless society based on sharing can be stable and happy. This is the only practical solution. If you do not want it - fight."

"Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage."

"Whenever love is withheld and suffering allowed to spread, war becomes inevitable. Our indifference to our neighbor's sorrow brings suffering to our door."

"Perfection is a state of the mind, when it is pure. I am beyond the mind, whatever its state, pure or impure. Awareness is my nature; ultimately I am beyond being and non-being."

"The greatest guru is your inner self. Truly he is the supreme teacher. He alone can take you to your goal and he alone meets you at the end of the road. Confide in him and you need no outer guru."

"You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself."

"You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need."

"Yes, I appear to hear and see and talk and act, but to me it just happens as to you digestion or perspiration happens. The body-mind machine looks after it, but leaves me out of it. Just as you do not need to worry about growing hair, so I need not worry about words and actions. They just happen and leave me unconcerned, for in my world nothing ever goes wrong."

"The very search for pleasure is the cause of pain."

"Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause."

"A man who moves with the earth will necessarily experience days and nights. He who stays with the sun will know no darkness. My world is not yours. As I see it, you all are on a stage performing. There is no reality about your comings and goings. And your problems are so unreal!"

"You are all drenched for it is raining hard. In my world it is always fine weather. There is no night or day, no heat or cold. No worries beset me there, nor regrets. My mind is free of thoughts, for there are no desires to slave for."

"Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what is pain."

"The world is the adobe of desires and fears. You cannot find peace in it. For peace you must go beyond the world. The root cause of the world is self-love. Because of it we seek pleasure and avoid pain."

"By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater."

"Fear and greed cause the misuse of the mind. The right use of mind is in the service of love, of life, of truth, of beauty."

"If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear."

"Were I very rich, what difference would it make? I am what I am. What else can I be? I am neither rich nor poor, I am myself."

"Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself."

"There is no chaos in the world, except the chaos which your mind creates."

"For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing."

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj