Inspirational Quotes
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.
They had the same fears that you have, the same aggressive tendencies and the same attachments, but they were freed in time because they believed.
I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.
The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.
If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.
There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.
The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!
Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.
OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?
The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.
Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.
You have elected to follow this path you do not know. You have elected to follow the path because eternity has elected you. You will follow it is as long as eternity holds you to it.
The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.
There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.
Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.
Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.
Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.
You should be drawing awareness from a deeper part of your being. Your deeper mind has everything already. It knows everything already. It has all the answers.
The key to happiness, in my opinion, is taking the time to find out what your spirit wants you to do, and doing it.
To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.
If you were just you, you would be happy. But of course, you don't know who or what you are. So how can you possibly be happy? That is why you have got to study Zen...or something.
We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.
Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.
The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.
Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.
Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.
If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.
Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.
Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.
Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.
We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.
The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.
You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.
There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.
You must have total and impeccable trust in eternity. Whether you like it or not, eternity's in charge, so you might as well trust. You will feel better.
You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.
You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.
As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.
You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.
There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.
The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.