Quotes by Spiritual Leaders - Page 7

If ‘one’ really were the sufferer or the enjoyer, then he would get tired. But the Self in reality is not experiencing anything. He simply does egoism only.

Dada Bhagwan

If you try to win, you bind (create) enmity, and if you acknowledge defeat, you will be freed from enmity.

Dada Bhagwan

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

Dalai Lama XIV

Those who have become vitarag (free from all worldly attachments), will have no intent of ownership (maliki bhav).

Dada Bhagwan

Absence of conflict creating intents is itself Moksh (Ultimate Liberation).

Dada Bhagwan

Keep on doing whatever it is that you have been doing; but, do no attachment-abhorrence. If ‘You’ stay in ‘Your [Pure Soul] state’; attachment-abhorrence will not occur.

Dada Bhagwan

Weapons never stay in their boxes. Once a weapon has been manufactured, sooner or later someone will use it. If it were possible to bring about true and lasting peace by force of arms, then we should turn all our factories into weapons factories. But that is impossible. Even though it is difficult to try to bring about peace through inner transformation, it is the only way of establishing sustainable peace in the world.

Dalai Lama XIV

Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal,’ it should be ‘normal’.

Dada Bhagwan

The person who tolerates ‘exactly’ (with understanding) hands over his ‘case’ to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him.

Dada Bhagwan

One should take care of one’s own [True] Self and do supervision of everything else.

Dada Bhagwan

What is attraction (akarshan) in this world? It is open fire and one should be aware of it. Attraction is the open fire. The root of illusory attachment (moha) is indeed attraction.

Dada Bhagwan

Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided. - 12/7/2012 on his Facebook page

Dalai Lama XIV

To whom does Mataji (Mother Goddess) appear? It is to the one who becomes natural and spontaneous [sahaj swabhavi]. Mataji is said to have come if the mind, speech and the body become naturally blissful. It can be said that the natural spontaneous energies (adhya shakti) have arisen.

Dada Bhagwan

The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them

Radhe Maa

Deepen your faith in yourself.Nothing will be ableTo frighten or weaken you.

Sri Chinmoy

The mind has got various phases . But all these phases merge and are transformed into one “Atma”—God with forms and attributes, and finally God without forms and attributes.

Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

The brighter stars emerge out of the blackest darkness.

Radhe Maa

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what's possible.

Yogi Bhajan

By forgetting the Supreme Lord, all the ailments cling to the man.

Guru Arjan Dev

The greatest religion [dharma] is that we keep everyone pleased.

Dada Bhagwan

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Dalai Lama XIV

This creation is so perfect that you can forget the Creator – you can just discard him, dump him – and still it goes on. So a true compliment to the Creator is when you forget about him. (Laughs) That is a real compliment to the wonderful piece of creation he has made; it is so perfect within itself that it does not need to draw from anything outside.

Sadhguru

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

When one remains ‘sincere’, no type of fear will come to him in the worldly life (sansar) and it will lead him to moksha (ultimate liberation)!

Dada Bhagwan

I begin by imagining The impossibleAnd end by accomplishingThe impossible.

Sri Chinmoy

If one can exactly see the world ‘as it is’; if one can exactly see the ‘relative’ and the ‘real’, it is shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul).

Dada Bhagwan

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

Dalai Lama XIV

If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield!

J.P. Vaswani

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Black Elk

Hatred can be cured by love.

Radhe Maa

If your monetary wealth accumulates naturally and spontaneously, then let it accumulate, but do not lean on it for support. You may take its support and feel a sense of relief, but there is no telling when that support will move away. Therefore, conduct yourself with caution from the beginning so that you are not shaken up during time of painful experiences.

Dada Bhagwan

Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.

Dalai Lama XIV

Live in joy, in love,even among those who hate.Live in joy, in health,even among the afflicted.Live in joy, in peace,even among the troubled.Look within, be still.Free from fear and attachment,know the sweet joy of the way.

Gautama Buddha

There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning.

Dada Bhagwan

To say 'I want to have sex with this person' is to express a desire which is not intellectually directed in the way that 'I want to eradicate poverty in the world' is an intellectually directed desire. Furthernore, the gratification of sexual desire can only ever give temporary satisfaction. Thus as Nagarjuna, the great Indian scholar said: 'When you have an itch, you scratch. But not to itch at all is better than any amount of scratching.

Dalai Lama XIV

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not other, it is your own mind.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In reality, the outer instruments (hands, feet, eyes, etc) are not the hindrance (for liberation); it is the inner instrument (mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is obstructive.

Dada Bhagwan

Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.

Sadhguru

The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.The Language of Soul

Harold Klemp

Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong.

Dada Bhagwan

The greatest policy is where there are no policies!

Dada Bhagwan

What you powerfully holdIn your thought-worldWill make you eitherA street beggarOr a great king.

Sri Chinmoy

The worldly life remains [and is not ending and one is not going to moksha] due to the pollution of the mind [bad mind/bad thoughts] and not due to the pollution of the body.

Dada Bhagwan

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Dalai Lama XIV

When religion starts within human being? Unless the divine consciousness of the body being manifested pours grace on the seer religion will not start. This divine consciousness takes the form of a living human being and as God-the-preceptor appears in the body in 12 years 4 months age, though it is individualistic.

Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

As long as parmanus (subatomic particles) match, there is oneness, and then it turns into revenge (vengeance). Wherever there is infatuation, there will indeed be revenge there.

Dada Bhagwan

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

Sivananda Saraswati

God has called 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit) as happiness. Even when someone swears at you, picks your pocket; the 'chit prasannta' doesn’t go away! Even at two o’clock in the morning, the 'chit prasannta' does not go away.

Dada Bhagwan

Soul (Atma) remains very far from where kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are created, the Soul is quite far from there. Where there is absence of kashays, there lies the ‘religion of Vitrags (the enlightened ones)’, and where kashays are present, lies the ‘relative religion’!

Dada Bhagwan

Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.

Dada Bhagwan

In this world, there is nothing that is right. Anything that people raise objection to, is wrong. Do people raise objection in every matter?

Dada Bhagwan

What is called true happiness? It is 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit). The person who has attained 'chit prasannta', he need not beg for anything in this world!

Dada Bhagwan

Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, "Why do you confuse us like this?" I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart.

Sadhguru

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

Marianne Williamson

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