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Spiritual Quotes Collection by Dr. R. S. Jnanesh.1
I was just flesh. I could see all that was in front of my eyes. But did not know why all this was there? Then I was a human being with a heart. A human being on a spiritual journey, who was meant to leave the human ways and learn the divine ways of life. At a later stage when I could see what lay behind my eyes and within, there is an impression that I am not a human being on a spiritual journey but a spiritual being or divinity on a human journey assessing the human values. It seems I am here on a vocation. I am however unwilling to learn or imbibe certain priorities of this world, especially the fact that money has become a temple of worship. Money is everything. Everything and everybody is weighed here in terms of money. Even all worship is purely for money. Every act, every thought and every purpose of the majority of humanity just seems to be in material world and God is just a tool for attainment of this purpose. This is a shame for divinity. If this be the attitude, days of human race are numbered. ~Dr. R. S. Jnanesh.
Selfless work (work intended to be done without expecting rewards) is the highest and the best. Though it is not everybody’s cup of tea. Maybe they like coffee or liquor. Do what you please and let others do what they can. But try to be as near truth as possible. ~Dr. R. S. Jnanesh
A waste cloth is a cheap thing, so is the valve pin, which holds air in the tube of a wheel of a luxury automobile, but they can do work which cannot be done by the most precious things. Mind you Each is great in its own place. ~Dr. R. S. Jnanesh
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God. ~Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa
A naked man jumped into the water to escape the stings of hornets. The hornets circle around him; when he shows his head, they do not let him go. The water is God's remembrance, and right now the hornets are the remembrance of this woman and that man. Hold your breath in the water of remembrance and be patient, so that you may be freed from old thoughts and inward whisperings! After that, you will gain totally the nature of pure water from head to foot. ~ rumi Jalaluddin
A proper spiritual approach for changing the behaviour of man and establishing World Peace is Karma Yoga.~vethatiri maharishi
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar~Lao-Tzu
A seeker went to ask a sage for guidance on the Sufi way.The sage counseled,"if you have never trodden the path of love, go away and fall in love; then come back and see us."~Essential Sufism
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. ~swami chinmayananda
As long as touch-me-not-ism is your creed and kitchen pot your Deity, you cannot rise spiritually.
~swami vivekananda
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths contained in the Sacred Scriptures.- Sir William Herschel
With every new answer unfolded, science has consistently discovered at least three new questions.--Wernher von Braun
"If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation." ~Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Brood less, smile more and serve all. ~swami chinmayananda
A smile costs nothing, yet it gives so much"~Anonymous
A student asked Soen Nakagawa during a meditation retreat, "I am very discouraged. What should I do?" Soen replied, "Encourage others.~(Essential Zen)
"When we start to study non-physical phenomena we will progress more in ten years than we have for centuries." -- ? ?
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things.
--Philippians 4:8
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupation, it becomes quiet. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
--Mother Teresa
You may learn to pass all your exams, but to give primary importance to these superficial things when the whole structure of society is crumbling, is like cleaning and polishing your fingernails while the house is burning down.
--Jiddu Krishnamurti
"If you think deeply enough, you will be forced by science to believe in God." -- Lord Kelvin (one of the world's greatest physicist)
The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that". ~Drew Barrymore
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being." ~Prophet Mohammed
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus
Wisdom is the wealth of the wise. Wise men give good counsel, but wiser take it. ~ Swami Gyanananda Saraswati
A telling analogy for life and death: Compare the two of them to water and ice.Water draws together to become ice,And ice disperses again to become water.Whatever has died is sure to be born again;Whatever is born comes around again to dying.As ice and water, life and death, the two are just fine.~unknown
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth."~ Lao-Tzu
Accept surprises that upset your plans, shatter your dreams, give a completely different turn to your day, or even to your life. It is not chance. Leave The Father free, Himself to weave the pattern of your days.~Helder Camara
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of the day.~unknown
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.~ Samuel Rutherford
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. ~ Swami Vivekananda
"Each soul is potentially divine . The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature , external and internal. Do this either by work , or worship or psychic control or philosophy - by one or more or all of these and be free". ~ Swami Vivekananda
All creatures, day and night, make manifestation of God. Some of them know what they are doing and are aware of their manifesting, while others are unaware. However it may be, God's manifestation is confirmed. ~ rumi Jalaluddin
All for God and for His Glory. In whatever you do, think of the Glory of God as your main goal. ~ St. Giovanni Melchior Bosco
All the fish needs to do is get lost in the water.All man needs to do is get lost in the Tao." ~lao tzu
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth." ~(native american proverb)
All your agonies arise from wanting something that cannot be had. When you stop wanting, there is no more agony. ~ rumi Jalaluddin
Base your action on knowledge, the knowledge that all is one. Let the action
be suffused with bhakti; that is to say, humility, love, mercy and non
violence. Let bhakti be filled with knowledge, otherwise it will be as light
as a balloon which drifts along any current of air, or gust of wind. ~BHAGAWAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
"When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going?" ~Douglas Gauck
"If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room." ~Unknown
A person desperately searching for love is like a fish desperately searching for water." ~ Deepak Chopra
The flower doesn’t deny the nectar but the bee must come and get it. ~Dr. R. S. Jnanesh.
Problems have never ceased to exist. They have always been there. Only their nature has changed. ~Dr. R. S. Jnanesh
There are two paths. One that is selfish and purely materialistic. Other that is selfless, spiritual and placed at his feet. Both are thorny. But in the spiritual path he alleviates the pain of the pricking thorns and heals the wounds. That is why it is more pleasant. ~Dr. R. S. Jnanesh
What is real is that which exists in life and disappears from the body in death. ~Dr. R. S. Jnanesh
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