Some facts and Inspirational Quotations which may guide you

You must be the change
you wish to see in the world.

-Mahatma Gandhi


What you are looking for
is what is looking.

-St. Francis of Assisi


Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.

-Osho


This we know: All things are connected
like the blood that unites us.
We did not weave the web of life,
We are merely a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

-Chief Seattle

Man emulates earth
Earth emulates heaven
Heaven emulates the Way
The way emulates nature.

-Henry David Thoreau


You've been walking in circles, searching. Don't drink by the water's edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end.

-Jeanette Berson


Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from
finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

-Eckhart Tolle


Wherever I go, I meet myself.
-Tozan


You can outdistance that which is running after you,
but not what is running inside you.

-Rwandan Proverb



You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving.
Well then, love your suffering.
Do not resist it, do not flee from it.
It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

-Hermann Hesse

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Bashô, Narrow Road to the Interior

The intuituive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

-Albert Einstein



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

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj


The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of their meaning. Once you've got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

-Chuang Tzu


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


It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; It is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

-Seneca


To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.

-Meher Baba


You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

-Gilbert Keith Chesterton


You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

-Franz Kafka


Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.

-Bob Marley


What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately,
Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

-Gary Zukav


When you know that you are eternal you can play your
true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself ...

-Mother Meera


A ship is safe in harbor-- but that's not what ships are for.

-John A. Shedd


Seeking
Why run around sprinkling holy water?
There's an ocean inside you, and when you're
ready you'll drink.

-Kabir


It is eternity now; I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is immortal life.

-Richard Jefferies


Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

-George Harrison The Inner Light


I shut my eyes in order to see.

-Paul Gaugin


The soul of man is like a piece of crystal, but it takes the color of whatever is near it. Whatever the soul touches... it has to take its color. That is the difficulty. That constitutes bondage. The color is so strong, the crystal forgets itself and identifies itself with the color. Suppose a red flower is near the crystal: the crystal takes the color and forgets itself, thinks it is red. We have taken the color of the body and have forgotten what we are. All the difficulties that follow come from that one dead body. All our fears, all worries, anxieties, troubles, mistakes, weakness, evil, are from that one great blunder-- that we are bodies. This is the ordinary person. It is the person taking the color of the flower near to it. We are no more bodies than the crystal is the red flower.


When a number of people from various angles and distances have a look at the sea, each man sees a portion of it according to his horizon. Though each man may say that what he sees is the real sea, all of them speak the truth, for all of them see portions of the same wide expanse. So the religious scriptures, though they seem to contain varying and conflicting statements, speak the truth, for they are all descriptions of that one infinite Reality.


Truth does not pay homage to any society,
ancient or modern. Society has to pay
homage to Truth or die. Societies should be
molded upon truth, and truth has not to adjust
itself to society.


Every religion preaches that the essence of all morality is to do good to others. And why? Be unselfish. And why should I? Some God has said it? He is not for me. Some texts have declared it? Let them; that is nothing to me; let them all tell it. And if they do, what is it to me? Each one for himself, and somebody take the hinder-most-- that is all the morality in the world at least with many. What is the reason that I should be moral? You cannot explain it except when you come to know the truth given in the Gita: "He who sees everyone in himself, and himself in everyone, thus seeing the same God living in all, he, the sage, no more kills the Self by the self." Know through Advaita that whosoever you hurt, you hurt yourself; they are all you. Whether you know it or not, through all hands you work, through all feet you move, you are the king enjoying in the palace, you are the beggar leading that miserable existence in the street; you are in the ignorant as well as in the learned, you are in the man who is weak, and you are in the strong; know this and be sympathetic. And that is why we must not hurt others. That is why I do not even care whether I have to starve, because there will be millions of mouths eating at the same time, and they are all mine. Therefore I should not care what becomes of me and mine, for the whole universe is mine, I am enjoying all the bliss at the same time; and who can kill me or the universe? Herein is morality.


The above passages are from the book Living At The Source Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda