Inspiring quotes from hinduism and other sources

"It is not true that all personality is mere illusion to be disolved in bare impersonal vastness. The greatest men we meet in the spiritual world shine with more, not less, personality than do common men, and when we pass beyond them to the great Divine Incarnations, Sri Krishna, Rama, Buddha, Christ, we find in them the same personal quality raised, as it were, to an infinite intensity. The calm, compassionate gaze of the Buddha, the burning intensity of Christ and the laughing intimate glances of Sri Krishna's dancing eyes are all infinitely personal, and it is just these qualities that draw the hearts of men and draw them with a stregnth that is far beyond the power of 'teaching'."

Sri Krishnaprem - Yoga of the Bhagavat Gita.

 

Today is the Feast Day of Saint Therese:

He that seeks here any other thing than purely God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.
St. Therese, the Little Flower

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Love your true Self,
Which is naturally happy
And peaceful and bright!

Awaken to your own nature,
And all delusion melts like a dream.


-Ashtavakra Gita 18:1

 

"Jesus wishes to own your heart completely."

St. Thérèse, the Little Flower.

 

The chorus from this song (and its aching beauty) makes me think of something the gopis would sing to Krishna...

"Simple cards and things
Rosecolored sunsets no flowers for me
Simple cards and things
Rosecolored sunsets Curtains for me
Lover why do you leave
Lover why do you leave
On the day I want you to be

The one"~ "Why Do They Leave" - Ryan Adams

 

It is necessary to pray to Him with a longing heart. The kitten knows only how to call its mother, crying, "Mew, mew!" It remains satisfied whenever its mother puts it. And the mother cat puts the kitten sometimes in the kitchen, sometimes on the floor, and sometimes on the bed. When it suffers it cries only, "Mew, mew!" That's all it knows. But as soon as the mother hears this cry, wherever she may be, she comes to the kitchen.

-Ramakrishna

 

"There are two ways of doing Yoga, one by knowledge and one's own efforts, the other by reliance on the Mother.
In the last way one has to offer one's mind and heart and all to the Mother for her Force to work on it, call her in all difficulties, have faith and bhakti.
At first it takes time, often a long time, for the consciousness to be prepared in this way - and during that time many difficulties can come up, but if one perseveres a time comes when all is ready, the Mother's Force opens the consciousness fully to the Divine, then all that must develop develops within, spiritual experience comes and with it the knowledge and union with the Divine."


"Take the psychic attitude; follow the straight sunlit path, with the Divine openly or secretly upbearing you - if secretly, he will yet show himself in good time, - do not insist on the hard hampered, roundabout and difficult journey."


Sri Aurobindo.

 

"Mother, Thy light stops not for the saint or the sinner; it animates the lover and the murderer. Mother is ever radiating through all. The light is not polluted by what it shines on, nor benefited by it. The light is ever pure, ever changeless. Behind every creature is the "Mother," pure, lovely, never changing."- Swami Vivekananda

 

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

 

"The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow"

William Blake - 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'

 

wait i will try to say some

dont look to hard because there is blind people out there

dont walk to far for people that cant walk

dont talk to much for mute people out there

dont listen to much for the deaf people out there


Edit: dont eat to much for the starving people out there

Edit: dont have to high of a self esteem for those people with too low of a self esteem

Edit: dont sleep to long for those who dont have a bed to sleep in

Edit: dont grab to much stuff for those without arms

 

The whole life is a succession of dreams.
My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
~ Swami Vivekanandaji

 

“You cannot taste the sweetness of honey by licking a piece of paper on which the word ‘honey’ has been written. Likewise, the principles described in the religious texts must be contemplated, meditated upon, and finally realized.”- Amma

 

'There is nothing more beautiful than to unite with the divine consciousness. One is sure to find what one seeks - if one seeks it in all sincerity; for what one seeks is within oneself' - Sweet Mother.

 

"Meditation is one means of approach to the divine and a great way, but it cannot be called a short cut - for most it is a most long and difficult though a very high ascent.............
....Love, Bhakti, surrender, the psychic opening are the only short-cut to the divine - or can be; for if the love and bhakti are too vital, then there is likely to be a seesaw between ecstatic expectation and viraha, abhiman (hurt love), despair etc., which make not a short-cut but a long one, a zigzag, not a straight flight, a whirling round one's own ego instead of a running towards the divine."

Sri Aurobindo - letter December 10th 1934.

(A word of explanation - by 'vital' Sri Aurobindo means if the love is too tangled up in the ordinary outer emotional nature, rather than based in the psychic or soul-consciousness which exists deep within, behind the ordinary surface consciousness)

 

'That which can be made explicit to an idiot is not worthy of my care'

William Blake.

 

You have to knock down the Berlin Wall that separates your meditation time from your non-meditation time.
- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

 

You have not danced so badly, my dear,
Trying to hold hands with the Beautiful One.

You have waltzed with great style,
My sweet, crushed angel,
To have ever neared God's Heart at all.

Our Partner is notoriously difficult to follow,
And even His best musicians are not always easy to hear.

So what if the music has stopped for a while.

So what
If the price of admission to the Divine
Is out of reach tonight.

So what, my dear,
If you do not have the ante to gamble for Real Love.

The mind and the body are famous
For holding the heart ransom,
But Hafiz knows the Beloved's eternal habits.

Have patience,

For He will not be able to resist your longing
For long.

You have not danced so badly, my dear,
Trying to kiss the Beautiful One.

You have actually waltzed with tremendous style,
O my sweet,
O my sweet, crushed angel.


"My Sweet, Crushed Angel",
Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz
c. 1320-1389
Rendered by Daniel Ladinsky

 

"To live by Love is to go through life sowing peace and joy in hearts"

St.Therese.

 

Hare Krishna!



" God manifests himself in everything, but the word is one of his most favoured methods of doing so, because the word is thought transformed into vibration ; you are projecting into the air around you something which, before, was only energy. Take great care with everything you say. The word has more power than many rituals. "

...... Paulo Coelho (From Brida).

 

Ignorance leads to Diversity, Knowledge leads to Unity - Swami Vivekanand