Wisdom Quotes - Page 176

Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the press, the abolition of trial by jury, or the abridgment of any other privilege.

Saintly people not only are responsible for themselves, but for everyone.

Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.

Accept only the truth and the truth will give you that power to be the real instrument, to carry this channel, that force of love.

A person is wise who does not only know what is right and wrong, but also he knows very well his own power not to do something wrong. He just does not do it. Wisdom is a complete power within ourselves by which we try nothing. It just spontaneously works through us and we do things which are proper and right.

Truth is one, single, and it can never be misinterpreted. To know the truth it is essential that whatever human awareness we have got, it has to be expanded. There is something still lacking in that awareness by which we cannot know God, we cannot know the truth.

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.

Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.

We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.

If you know how to get fun out of the so-called discomforts, then you should know you are on the right lines.

As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must be connected to God individually so that you all are connected among yourselves. I have been saying this again and again and again because at the Sahasrara you are being blessed with this collective spirit.

And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know there is ego, ego will drop out.

So in Sahasrara, you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are being enlightened. If you can understand that, then you will understand what is the use of having ego because you have such a lot of powers within you, which you have not utilized. We should use, but because of ego you cannot. With love you can. With love you can manage and you can do a lot.

Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you get connected to the Divine Paradise.

If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.

What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater than the ocean, can it? So what is the surrendering? It is the surrendering of our conditioning, of our ego and the artificial barriers we have built around us.

If you want to be positive, it is very easy and for that you should see where is your attention. Are you only seeing problems or are you seeing some fun in it?

Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success.