Nature's Wisdom

\"No one can describe the Truth adequately. Even the great Shankara failed to do it.\" Satguru Siva Yogaswami

\"Whoever knows It as \

I am Brahman\' becomes the universe.\" Brihadaranyaka Upanishad'

\"If an earthquake does you harm, do you try to harm it in return?\" Satguru Siva Yogaswami

\"Self inquiry directly leads to Realization by removing the obstacles which make you think that the Self is not already realized.\" Ramana Maharshi

\"In death the many become one; in life the one becomes many.\" Rabindranath Tagore

\"He is the inner Self of all, hidden like a little flame in the heart. Only by the stilled mind can He be known. Those who realize Him become immortal.\" Shvetashvatara Upanishad

\"A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches and thoughts, the consequences of even the least of them is far-reaching.\" Swami Sivananda

\"When I look inside and see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see I am everything, that is love.\" Nisargadatta Maharaj

\"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.\" W Rogers

\"It is not what you look at that matters, it\

s what you see.\" Henry David Thoreau'

\"What for do we need a book? The whole spiritual truth, every Shastra, is secret in the human heart.\" Sita Ram Goel

\"Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin--to say that you are weak, or others are weak.\" Swami Vivekananda

\"In the final analysis we are all doing exactly as we want, as we must, doing what is next on our personal path of evolution. Nothing is wrong. Nothing should be that is not.\" Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

\"Even in rags I am a God, fallen I am divine, high I triumph when down-trod, long I live when slain!\" Sri Aurobindo

\"Stop identifying with the world created by your mind and a new world will open up before you.\" Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

\"Can he rectify false weight whose own scales are uncertain? Can you enlighten your neighbor while you yourself have no light?\" Sri Ramakrishna

\"You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you, too.\" Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

\"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.\" Maori proverb

\"When you reach the heart of life, you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. \" Kahlil Gibran

\"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.\" Rabindranath Tagore

\"There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret. \" Swami Vivekananda

\"Nothing has to happen for that part of us to be one with God; we just have to find it. \" Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

\"You are perfect this very moment. You are all that you will ever be. If you don\

t see it that way, then you live in a difficult state of affairs, striving toward perfection and being imperfect along the way. \" Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami'

\"The real meaning of the scriptures can only be known in the silence of the mind.\" Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

\"You are God. God sees through your eyes, hears through your ears, speaks through your mouth. \" Satguru Siva Yogaswami

\"When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected.\" Nisargadatta Maharaj

\"The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music. The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.\" Rabindranath Tagore

\"By our stumbling, the world is perfected.\" Sri Aurobindo

\"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love\

s sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.\" Swami Vivekananda'

\"Give yourself up to the wave, and you will be absorbed by the current; having dived into the sea, you do not return anymore.\" Anandamayi Ma

\"Live morality before you talk of it. Practice meditation before you preach it. Taste goodness before you recommend it. Gain bliss before you offer it to others.\" Swami Chinmayananda

\"Peace comes when there is nothing left to defend, and nothing to conquer.\" Yogasri Svami Yogananda Giri

\"Think like a genius. Work like a giant. Live like a saint.\" Swami Omkarananda Saraswati

\"When diksha is given to a competent disciple, the guru enters into his soul, establishes himself as the disciple\

s inner Self and by means of his power, removes all the impurities that limit the essential nature of the disciple\'s Self.\" Sarvajnananottara Agama'

\"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.\" Henry Ford

\"Fall down seven times, get up eight\" Japanese proverb

\"The heaven-sent torrent leaps, rushing down rocky heights. So does the silent divine stream from heart\

s inner core--formless, pure, clear, crystalline, boundless, free--from my Holy Master, ever pour.\" Tirumantirum'

\"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. \" Plato

\"I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you, and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.\" Crazy Horse

\"We are dreaming that we are not Parasiva--that we are going to realize Parasiva sometime in the future. But realizing Parasiva is like waking up. We just have to claim it. We have to step beyond time and space, step out of the concept that we have to do something in order to realize it. It\

s like when we are traveling in a dream, we just have to wake up--very simple--and we find we are home.\" Satguru Bodhinatha'

\"Those who cannot live in harmony with the world, though they have learned many things, are still ignorant.\" Tirukural

\"There is no death. Only a change of worlds.\" Chief Seattle

\"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.\" Farrah Gray

\"Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.\" Lao Tzu

\"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.\" Leo Tolstoy

\"Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.\" Ramana Maharishi

\"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.\" Ralph Waldo Emerson

\"In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.\" Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

\"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.\" Albert Einstein

\"Just as the rays of light share and diffuse the radiance of the sun, so you too share and reflect the golden glories of Indra, the cosmic soul. Let us meditate on the divine presence and for our share, enjoy the ecstasy of bliss vibrating in the world of past and future creations, by virtue of Indra\

s omnipresent majesty.\" Rig Veda'

\"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.\" Alan Watts

\"We are already divine. No one has to redeem us; Divinity is in there. We just have to find it.\" Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

\"Prayer reminds me that I am not lost in a dream, but I am only dreaming that I am lost.\" Swami Chinmayananda

\"What is God after all ? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.\" Sri Aurobindo

\"Ever afterward, though the dance of creation changes around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.\" Anandamayi Ma

\"The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you who must raise your sails.\" Rabindranath Tagore

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