One cannot see God as long as one feels ‘I am the doer’. Fully awakened souls are beyond virtue and vice. They realize that it is God who does everything.
Ramakrishna
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Whatever decision we think we are making is actually being made for us, because the decision is the end result of a thought and we have no control over the arising of the thought.
Ramesh Balsekar
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A man’s character is his fate.
-Heraclitus
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That which speech does not illumine, but Which illumines speech:
know that alone to be the Brahman, not this which people worship here.That which cannot be thought by mind, but by Which, they say, mind is able to think:
know that alone to be the Brahman, not this which people worship here.That which is not seen by the eye, but by Which the eye is able to see:
know that alone to be the Brahman, not this which people worship here.That which cannot be heard by the ear, but by Which the ear is able to hear:
know that alone to be Brahman, not this which people worship here.That which none breathes with the breath, but by Which breath is in–breathed:
know that alone to be the Brahman, not this which people worship here.Kena Updanishad
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The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
-Zig Ziglar
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Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
-Joe Clark
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-Abraham Lincoln
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A life is not important except in the impact that it has on other lives.
-Jackie Robinson
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Those who joyfully leave everything in God’s hands will eventually see God’s hand in everything.
-Shammi Sukh, Today Tears Tomorrow Cheers
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Every moment is a fresh beginning.
-T.S. Eliot
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Quotes from Hsin Hsin Ming
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
In the landscape of spring, there is neither better nor worse. The flowering branches grow naturally, some long, some short.
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
The ten thousand questions are one question. If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear.
The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men.
Though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely.
To do a certain kind of thing, you have to be a certain kind of person.
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.
When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear.
At first, I saw mountains as mountains and rivers as rivers. Then, I saw mountains were not mountains and rivers were not rivers. Finally, I see mountains again as mountains, and rivers again as rivers.
If the problem has a solution, worrying is pointless, in the end the problem will be solved. If the problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it can’t be solved.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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The ten cannots
1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
3. You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
4. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
5. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
6. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
9. You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.
10. And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.-William J. H. Boetcker
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Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
-Yoda
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
-Anne Frank
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
-Carl Sagan
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
-Og Mandino (Ten Scrolls)Light lets you act and Darkness lets you rest.
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You can go as far as your mind lets you.
-Mary Kay Ash
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
-Rosa Parks
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Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
—Ed Cunningham
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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod. My shadow does that much better.
—Plutarch
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No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
-Alice Walker
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Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
-Michelle Obama
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
-William James
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
-Harriet Tubman
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Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut you more deep. Let it ferment and season you as few humans and even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so soft, my voice so tender, my need for God absolutely clear.
―Hafiz
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
-Mark Twain
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
-Booker T. Washington
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The time is always right to do what is right.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
-John Burroughs
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
-John Burroughs
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It is better to burn out than to fade away.
-Neil Young / Rust never sleeps / 1979
-Kurt Cobain / Suicide note / 1994
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The true knowledge of the self is not a knowledge. It is not something that you find by searching, by looking everywhere. It is not to be found in space and time. Knowledge is but a memory, a pattern of thought, a mental habit. All these are motivated by pleasure and pain. It is because you are goaded by pleasure and pain that you are in search of knowledge. Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself and no reason is needed.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
-Og Mandino
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Only put off until tomorrow what you’re willing to die having left undone.
-Pablo Picasso
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If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it.
-Luke Parker
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
―Indira Gandhi
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Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
-Vijayalakshmi Pandit
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Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.
-Brian Tracy
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never have tried to succeed.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
-Walt Disney
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Once you know that death happens to the body and not to you, you just watch your body falling off like a discarded garment. Once you know that the body alone dies and not the continuity of memory and the sense of “I am” reflected in it, you are afraid no longer.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
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What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
-Eleanor Powell
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When we feel broken and weak, all we have to do is wait. The spring returns, the winter snows melt and their water gives us new energy.
-Paulo Coelho
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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.
― Eric Thomas
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I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach the destination.
-Jimmy Dean
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