- “Connecting To Your Vision Will Make You More Resolute And Thus Help You Take Charge Of Your Situation”.” ― Venugopal Acharya, Mind Your Mind – Three Principles for Happy Living
- “We cannot learn if we are stuck in our mind’s conditioned way of thinking. We must be open to discovering the Truth, whatever it may turn out to be. This requires a state of openness, curiosity, and sincerity, a state of pure awareness, a state of observing reality without jumping to conclusions about what reality is. This state of direct experience is known in Zen as “beginner’s mind,” and it is essential to embody this state when we want to understand our experience.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “The one who protects the body-complex (pudgal) is not the ‘enlightened one’ (Gnani). A Gnani is the protector of only the Soul and it’s natural attributes.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “Real communication is spiritual, provided by nature. It’s beyond the power of tongues and its used expressions and words.” ― Noha Alaa El-Din, Norina Luciano
- “The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it’s content can perpetually change with your perception.” ― Jennifer Sodini
- “We’ (Enlightened One, Dadabhagwan) have only one desire. And that too a disappearing one; the one for Jagat Kalyan (salvation of the World)!” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “When we look at a tree, we do not see the tree for what it really is. We see how it appears to us on the surface, and we dismiss it as being just another form in the Universe. We fail to realize that the tree is connected to the Universe on every level; that all of nature is expressing itself through that single form. There can be no tree without the earth that it grows from, the sun that gives it energy, the water that nourishes its growth, and the millions of fungi and bacteria fertilizing its soil. Looking deeply into anything in nature, we realize that it is connected to the whole. We see that nature is one seamless web, and the notion that things have an existence of their own is merely an illusion.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “Stay upbeat and keep your head held high. There is no end to the power of positive thinking. I AM looking forward to all the wealth, success, and abundance speeding my way!” ― Ron Barrow
- “That which reduces ego is considered knowledge of the Enlightened Ones (Vitraagi Gnan). And the ego that is reduced through conduct and rituals is considered to be according to God’s special directives (agna). But (actually) the ego has increased! That is the very misery!” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world without sentimental artifice. Emotional detachment provides for clarity of vision.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
- “The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.” ― Neale Donald Walsch
- Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment. Swami Vivekananda (See also: hard work quotes)
- “More and more obstacles seem to be other people’s issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.” ― Tom Althouse, The frowny face cow
- “Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It is the formless and eternal quality within you that expresses itself through the world of form.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “Misery is an unpleasant painful experience (ashata vedaniya); result of misery is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is ‘to a certain degree’.” ― Søren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
- “The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you’ll be clear enough to deal with what’s left.” ― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
- “When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!” ― Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
- “Science’ (vignan) is always principled and it brings an end to all the misery. ‘Science’ is the only solution for it, but it must be the experiential science of Gnani Purush (the enlightened one).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Autobiograpy of Gnani Purush A.M.Patel
- “If one can exactly see the world ‘as it is’; if one can exactly see the ‘relative’ and the ‘real’, it is shukladhyan (Internal state that renders the constant awareness of ‘I am pure Soul’).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “On the road to success, there is always room to share appreciation and gratitude for other people’s successes. Feeling gratitude for other people raises our own vibration, while adding cement to the bricks we lay. Finding the best qualities in others allows us to build those qualities within ourselves. And when we focus on our personal growth with open hearts and minds, the speed with which we construct dramatically increases, because all the while, we are attracting more like energy and like-minded people into our lives to assist us.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute the Earth that we live on, cut down the trees that produce our oxygen, destroy the ecosystems of nature and the animals that maintain them, and we mistreat and harm each other, thinking that these destructive actions will not have a direct effect on us.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “We Repeatedly Pronounce Black and White Verdicts on Life Situations And The People We Interact With But We Tend To Overlook The Different Subtle Shades Of Human Dynamics”.” ― Venugopal Acharya
- “The desire for connection with the Divine and our formless inner self is at the foundation of all desire for human connection.” ― Donna Goddard
- “Let the people talk, let people doubt, and letpeople question you, but never allow yourself to quit walking your path. Their path is their own and the path you walk is that of your own. Sweet child of mine, be the brave child of mine.” ― Forrest Curran, Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love
- “When we ourselves are not truly in a place of peace and we go out and try to create peace in the world, it becomes a fragmented and sometimes even corrupt form of peace. This happens because only peace can create peace, and unless we are the embodiment of it, we are projecting our bias of what peace should look like onto other people’s lives. To be at peace means to accept reality as is. Embodying peace is, in fact, the very essence of what it means to be free, as well as offering this freedom to others.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don’t, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.” ― Matt D. Miller