Meditation # 58
Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration; it is justified indeed both by an imprecise intuitive knowledge of large spiritual truths and by the subjective experience of souls that have risen beyond the ordinary life, but in itself it only gives us the hope and faith by which we may be induced to aspire to the intimate possession of the hidden tracts and larger realities of the Spirit. That we turn always the few distinct truths and the symbols or the particular discipline of a religion into a hard and fast dogmas, is a sign that as yet we are only infants in the spiritual knowledge and are yet far from the science of the Infinite. - Sri Aurobindo
- Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when
you listen to God. - Diana Robinson
- Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.
It's a way of entering into the quiet that's
already there, buried under the 50,000 thoughts the
average person thinks every day. - Deepak Chopra
- Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived
wisely. - Buddha
- They always say time changes things, but you actually
have to change them yourself.- Andy Warhol
- Change your thoughts and you change your world.-
Norman Vincent Peale
- Nothing endures but change.- Heraclitus
- He who is not courageous enough to take risks will
accomplish nothing in life. - Muhammad Ali
- The more significance you give the moment, the more
the moment has the opportunity to be significant.
- The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to
branch through the forest. In order not to lose sight of
the monkey, we must watch the monkey constantly and even
be one with it. - Thich Nhat Hanh
- The person should look for peace within and not
depend on it in any other place. There are no waves in
the depths of the ocean, it is still and unbroken.- Lord
Buddha
- My God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see
the road ahead of me, I cannot know for certain where it
will end; but I will not fear, for you are ever
with me - Thomas Merton
- A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man
lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily,
abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat. - Siddhartha
Guatama Buddha
- Take the first step in faith. You don't have to
see the whole staircase, just take the first step.-
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this
time more wisely. - Anonymous
- People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are
successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten
tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you
vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest
person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the
smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if
you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the
best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give
the world the best you've got anyway -
Anonymous
- You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help
him find it within himself.- Galileo
- Patience and perseverance have a magical effect
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more
than much knowledge that is idle.- John Quincy
Adams
- Courage is going from failure to failure without
losing enthusiasm.- Winston Churchill
- One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one
is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot
practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't
be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. - Maya
Angelou
- There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and
one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry
about anything whatsoever - Mahatma Gandhi
- Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the
reach of proof. - Kahlil Gibran
- Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the
reward for this faith is to see what you believe. - St.
Augustine
- The flowering of love is meditation. - Jiddu
Krishnamurti
- It is not the number of books you read, nor the
variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious
conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency
and earnestness with which you meditate on these things
till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your
being, that ensures your growth. - Frederick William
Robertson
- We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The
trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the
beautiful stuff out. - Ray Bradbury
- You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying
over your head, but you can prevent them from building a
nest in your hair - Chinese Proverb
- Be light unto yourselves. Rely upon yourself; do not
depend on anyone else. - Lord Buddha's last
words
- Meditation is the window to the soul. Go sit quietly
in the window and watch the world pass by.
- Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the
Kingdon of Heaven present in the heart of everybody.-
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a
piece of the continent, a part of the main. - John
Donne
- Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single
candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Lord
Buddha
- Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - Zen
Proverb
- Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not
realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank
A. Clark
- Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a
glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of bo dy: these
signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation. -
Shvetashvatara Upanishad
- Through meditation and by giving full attention to
one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention
where we choose. - Eknath Easwaran
- Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and
without a doubt you shall be united with me , Lord of
Love, dwelling in your heart. - Bhagavad Gita
- What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - Sir
John Lubbock
- If motivation doesn't come from within, it
doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that
allow people to motivate themselves. - Herman Cain
- Watch your thoughts; they become words.Watch your
words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they
become habits. Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - Frank
Outlaw
- If what you're working for really matters,
you'll give it all you've got. - Nido
Qubein
- Even though you may want to move forward in your
life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be
free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt.
Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The
energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back
from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? -
Mary Manin Morrissey
- Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded
genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world
is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan,
'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race - Calvin Coolidge
- See God in every person, place, and thing, and all
will be well in your world. - Louise Hay
- Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. -
Mahatma Gandhi
- God would be pleased if you were to take one last
look in the mirror before you start your day and say,
'God loves you . . . and so do I'. - Zig
Ziglar
- Submission to God's will is the softest pillow on
which to rest.- Unknown
- Because God is everywhere, you can pray anywhere. -
Unknown
- God loves us and believes in us and has done and will
do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on
our free agency. - Marion D. Hanks Ensign
- No one in the world can alter truth. All we can do is
seek it and live it. - St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe
- Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If
you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become
more and more Christlike, for His heart was meek and
always thought of others. - Mother Teresa
- Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you
without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's
kindness. - Mother Teresa
- Now let me say that the next thing we must be
concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good
will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the
sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody
because he is a child of God. - Martin Luther King
Jr
- To find out what you love to do demands a great deal
of intelligence; because, if you are afraid of not being
able to earn a livelihood, or of not fitting into this
rotten society, then you will never find out. But, if you
are not frightened, if you refuse to be pushed into the
groove of tradition by your parents, by your teachers, by
the superficial demands of society, then there is a
possibility of discovering what it is you really love to
do. So, to discover, there must be no fear of not
surviving. - Krishnamurti
- There are times when you have to obey a call which is
the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even
though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and
even more, separation from friends, from family, from the
state to which you may belong, from all that you have
held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the
law of our being. - Mahatma Gandhi
- Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You
don't have to make your subject and your verb agree
to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and
Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know
Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You
don't have to know the second theory of
thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of
grace. A soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King
Jr
- Live simply and take life more easily. Happiness lies
in giving yourself time to think an d to introspect. Be
alone once in a while, and remain more in silence. -
Yogananda
- The value of life does not depend upon the place we
occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place. -
St. Thérèse de Lisieux
- Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and
aspiration; it is justified indeed both by an imprecise
intuitive knowledge of large spiritual truths and by the
subjective experience of souls that have risen beyond the
ordinary life, but in itself it only gives us the hope
and faith by which we may be induced to aspire to the
intimate possession of the hidden tracts and larger
realities of the Spirit. That we turn always the few
distinct truths and the symbols or the particular
discipline of a religion into a hard and fast dogmas, is
a sign that as yet we are only infants in the spiritual
knowledge and are yet far from the science of the
Infinite. - Sri Aurobindo
- Asceticism for its own sake is not the ideal of this
Yoga, but self-control in the vital and right order in
the material are a very important part of it -- and even
an ascetic discipline is better for our purpose than a
loose absence of true control. Mastery of the material
implies in it the right and careful utilization of things
and also a self-control in their use. Forceful
suppression (fasting also comes under the head) stands on
the same level as free indulgence; in both cases, the
desire remains: in the one it is fed by indulgence, in
the other it lies latent and exasperated by suppression.
- Sri Aurobindo
- He who loves, never grows old. God is a shining
example. You may feel that in this world, some people are
very bad. But by feeling that a person is very bad or by
hating that person, are you gaining anything? That
particular person has not gained anything from your
hatred. And what have you done? By hating that person,
you have lost something very sweet in yourself. Why
should one lose something very precious of her own, just
because she wants to correct someone by hating him? In
this world, we have to be very wise. You will say that he
is very bad and that you have to do something. But hating
is not the right instrument. If you want to use the right
weapon, the most effective weapon will be love. - Sri
Chinmoy
- Through self knowledge you begin to find out what is
God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless.
Your teacher may pass on to you the knowledge which he
received from his teacher, and you may do well in your
examinations, get a degree and all the rest of it; but,
without knowing yourself as you know your own face in the
mirror, all other knowledge has very little meaning.
Learned people who don't know themselves are really
unintelligent; they don't know what thinking is, what
life is. That is why it is important for the educator to
be educated in the true sense of the word, which means
that he must know the workings of his own mind and heart,
see himself exactly as he is in the mirror of
relationship. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom.
In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all
the struggles of humanity. - Krishanmurti
- The best way to prepare for death is to spend every
day of life as though it were the last. Think of the end
of worldly honor, wealth and pleasure and ask yourself:
And then? And then? - St. Philip Romolo Neri
- We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the
power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and
some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we
are less prone to hate our enemies. - Martin Luther King Jr
