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U.G. Krishnamurti

“The extraordinary intelligence of the biological organism is all that is necessary for good living, but we are all the time interfering with its natural operation through the medium of thought.”

“I am not in conflict with the society. I am not interested in changing it. The demand to bring about a change in myself isn’t there anymore. So, the demand to change the world at large is not there. I suffer with the suffering man and am happy with the happy man…”

“Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, where as culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.”

“The more you know about yourself the more impossible it becomes to be humble and sensitive. How can there be humility as long as you know something.”

“Knowledge creates experience and experience strengthens the knowledge. This is a vicious circle.”

Ghandi

“We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.”

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?”

“We must be the change we wish to see.”

Jesus

“The kingdom of God is within you.”

“He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city.”

John Lennon

“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.”

Martin Luther King

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.”

Buddha

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“What we think, we become.”

Hafez

“Hey you, parrot! speaking in riddles,
Sugar wouldn’t melt in your mouth!

Clear your head so your heart will be happy,
And then mimic the words of the Beloved!”

Rumi

“Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it’s a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame’s core.”

“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”

Wei Wu Wei

“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”

“The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.”

“Destroy ‘the ego’, hound it, beat it, snub it, tell it where it gets off?
Great fun, no doubt, but where is it? Must you not find it first?
Isn’t there a word about catching your goose before you can cook it?

The great difficulty here is that there isn’t one. ”

“As long as there is a ‘you’ doing or not-doing,
thinking or not-thinking,
‘meditating’ or ‘not-meditating’
you are no closer to home
than the day you were born.”

Ramana Maharshi

“You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.”

“Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.”

Papaji

“Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don’t give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.”

“When the mind is quiet, all is Self.”

Bob Marley

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”

“Man is a universe within himself.”

Lao Tzu

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still”

“In the pursuit of knowledge
every day something is added
In the practice of the Tao
every day something is dropped.”

Neem Karoli Baba Maharaji

“Cleanse the mirror of your heart, and you will see God.”

“Attachment is the strongest block to realization.”

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“You observe the heart feeling, the mind thinking, the body acting; the very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.”

“Desire, fear, trouble, joy, they cannot appear unless you are there to appear to. Yet, whatever happens points to your existence as a perceiving centre. Disregard the pointers and be aware of what they are pointing to.”

“The succession of transient moments creates the illusion of time, but the timeless reality of pure being is not in movement, for all movement requires a motionless background. It is itself the background. Once you have found it in yourself, you know that you had never lost that independent being.”

Sri Ananadamayi Ma

“God is within everyone, but man goes out in search of Him. This is what constitutes God’s Play and God’s Creation.”

“To believe in Him under any particular form is not enough. Accept Him in His numberless forms, shapes and modes of being, in everything that exists. Aim at the whole and all your actions will be whole.”

“Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so forth. So long as one enjoys the things of this world and has needs and wants, it is necessary to minister to the needs of one’s fellow men. Otherwise one cannot be called a human being. Whenever you have the opportunity, give to the poor, feed the hungry, nurse the sick - do service as a religious duty and you will come to know by direct perception that the person served, the one who serves and the act of service are separate only in appearance.”

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