Come and share spiritually inspiring quotations from Hinduism and other sources.
Let me begin with this one:
That which is the most subtle–this whole universe has That as its self.
That is the Real. That is the Self. That you are.
I love quotes! Keep 'em coming!!!
I eat love, I breathe love. God’s form is love and if you want to find Him, it can only be through love. Always maintain and nurture the love that springs up from within. Don’t allow it to get spoiled because when pure love gets frustrated or spoiled, it is worse than death. Love is earned by giving love. It cannot be bought. However, unlike money, the love you earn goes with you at death. – Baba Prakashananda
[I]Agaram Bagaram Baba: Life, Teachings and Parables–A Spiritual Biography of Baba Prakashananda[/I], pg 144
We’ll grow kindness in our hearts
For all the strangers among us
Until there are no strangers anymore
Patty Griffin
Song: No Bad News
CD: Children Running Through
From Hinduism? Hmmm. I’m not sure what to make of that but …
The occult seeker into the open came:
He heard the far and touched the intangible,
He gazed into the future and the unseen;
He used the powers earth-instruments cannot use,
A pastime made of the impossible;
He caught up fragments of the Omniscient’s thought,
He scattered formulas of omnipotence.
Thus man in his little house made of earth’s dust
Grew towards an unseen heaven of thought and dream
Looking into the vast vistas of his mind
On a small globe dotting infinity.
At last climbing a long and narrow stair
He stood alone on the high roof of things
And saw the light of a spiritual sun.
Aspiring he transcends his earthly self;
He stands in the largeness of his soul new-born,
Redeemed from encirclement by mortal things
And moves in a pure free spiritual realm
As in the rare breath of a stratosphere;
A last end of far lines of divinity,
He mounts by a frail thread to his high source;
He reaches his fount of immortality,
He calls the Godhead into his mortal life.
Above those who don’t know, there are those who know
Above those who know, there are those who retain
Above those who retain, there are those who understand
Above those who understand, there are those who apply
Above those who apply, there are those who get results
Above those who get results, are those who reach succes
Above those who reach success, are those who get the powers
Above those who get the powers, there are those using them to reach the Absolute - by what everything becomes possible
…
Now, this is a rought translation, maybe somone can better quote it in english
‘what appears to be coming at you is coming from you.’
‘there are many within and one that watches. let the many pass, be the one that watches.’
not sure where these came from, i know my source, but it’s not the original source.
I worship in my heart the Goddess
whose body is awash in ambrosia,
beautiful like lightning, who, going from her abody
to Shiva's royal palace, opens the lotuses
of the lovely axial channel (sushumna).
- Bhairav-Stotra
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"
Gandhi
"Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive."
Nagarjuna (Indian, first century)
“Unconditional Love: Love yourself, others, and every situation - no matter what the outward appearances may be”
(That is coming from “Goddess guidance oracle cards” which I like to use sometimes:-) )
You are spiritual beings here for a human experience.
- Yogi Bhajan
Prayer is when the mind is one-pointed
and man talks to Infinity. Meditation is
when the mind becomes totally clean and
receptive, and Infinity talks to man.
-Yogi Bhajan
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee,
God of glory, Lord of love;
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee,
Opening to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness,
Drive the dark of doubt away;
Giver of immortal gladness,
Fill us with the light of day.
Henry van Dyke: Ode to Joy
written in 1908 to accompany Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
I believe this one…
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
should be attributed to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955).
Apologies for breaking from the theme.
[I]
Om Namah Shivaya[/I]
[I]With great respect and love, I honor my heart, my inner teacher. Namaste.[/I]
-Swami MuktanandaThere are no people here
There is only silence
There is only God and I.
There are flowers and an old pine,
And you, the soul of my dreams!
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff :: from [I]How Fair This Place[/I]
?I gradually take away the wealth of him on whom I wish to shower My Grace until he is reduced to penury and extreme misery. Forsaken equally by relatives and friends, he strives again and again to rise and again and again finds himself thwarted, till complete despair brings him to My devotees, when I reveal My Grace to him in the realisation of My infinite nature, which consists of pure Intelligence and eternal Existence. ?
Lord Krishna
Without awarness is also difficult sometimes in life to deal with the attachments/expectations of other people especially those who are close to you. I was trying to fulfill them but on the other hand I was also running away and looking for freedom external instead of internal.
Non attachment is fundamental for pure and unconditional love which is so much missing in this world. When you love unconditionally you don’t have to run away from anything and everybody is more happy.
During meditation I finally started to understand what is meant with wittnesing thoughts and practising non attachment to them. I feel now that I will finally start to practise yoga. It took me a year of “warming up”
Teaching of non attachment is so beautiful!
And further on this.
An Anthony de Mello story, told by me, without exact quotation.
The Master was in a speechy mood, and the disciples took the opportunity to ask him about his journey. He consented, and told them:
-First, I was living in the land of activity, from where, I was taken to the land of sorrow, for years, until I was freed of all my attachments to unworthy things. Than I arrived to the land of love, where the remaining of my ego was consumed by the fire of love. Than came the journey to the land of silence, where the misteries of life and death were unrevealed to me.
Here he stopped. The disciples asked:
-Was this the final destination of your journey ?
-No, the Master said. One day God came to me and asked me to follow him to His innermost sanctuary, to the land of laughter.
this quote is for inner peace :
" The biggest war of man is the war with his ghost and inner demons ,
a man who learns to make peace with himself , makes peace and tranquility through the world "
I found QUOTES of this amazing man quotes in the yoga section of this website :
www.wellnesscoach2010.com > yoga
have an amazing life!
Immortality is attained when one’s wish is to let go of all other things besides the one Great Reality
Swami Chidananda
******Empirical Sources of Blessedness ******
Eat sparingly, breathe deeply, talk kindly, work energetically, bathe thoroughly and have a long life. Cultivate a melting heart, the giving hand, the kindly speech, the life of service, equal vision and impartial attitude. Your life will indeed be blessed.
Out of pain comes the philosophy of ?Who am I??; out of suffering comes endurance; out of service a pure, compassionate heart; out of adversity the strength of will; out of faith the final beatitude; and out of meditation oneness with the Infinite.
Swami SivanandaIt is for [COLOR=DarkRed]love that the whole universe
sprang into existence,
and it is for the sake of love
that it keeps going.
~ Meher Baba
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