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Give And Take

o A SHORT PRAYER –”Whate’er i do, things great or small Whate’er i speak or frame. Thy glory may i seek man, Do all in Jesus’s name.”
o AA. MILNE –”Rivers know this: there is no hurry, We shall get there someday.”
o ABRAHAM LINCOLN –”When i do good, i feel good; when i do bad, ifeel bad. That’s my religion.”
o ADI GRANTH –”Some call on the Lord, “Rama,” some cry, ‘ ‘Khuda,’ ‘Some bow to Him as Gosain, some as Allah; He is called the Ground of Grounds and also the Bountiful.The Compassionate One and Gracious… Says Nanak, Whoever realises the will of the Lord,He will find out the Lord’s secrets!”
o ADI GRANTH –”This earth is a garden, The Lord its gardener; Cherishing all, none neglected.”
o ADI SANKARACHARYA –”Acceptance by firm judgement as true of what the scriptures and the guru instruct, is called by sages as shraddha or faith, by means of which Reality is perceived.”
o ADI SHANKARACHARYA –”Forgive me Oh, Shiva My three great sins! I came on a pilgrimage to Kashi forgetting that you are omnipresent. In thinking about you i forgot that You are beyond thought. In praying to You i forgot that You are beyond words.”
o ALAN PATRICK HERBERT –”A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”
o ANANIS NIN –”We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present and future mingle and pull us backward, or fix us in the present. We are m/ade up of cells, constellations.”
o ANDREW COHEN –”Enlightenment means freedom from karma. Karma is created every time you act out of unconsciousness, ignorance, and selfishness in ways that cause suffering to others. For most of us, karma is a powerful force – the accumulated momentum of literally countless actions. The momentum of karma is what makes the personal world of ego and un-emightenment appear so attractive to us… In an evolutionary context, the individual is aspiring to become liberated so that the authentic self, the evolutionary impulse, is free to act, to respond, to transform this world. The authentic self has no past; it has no karma.”
o ANIL KRAJVANSHI –”In all mythologies gods are shown to have powers to go to any place at will. In Patanjali Yoga Darshan it is stated that a yogi can get, through spiritual practice, the powers to fly through space with speeds matching that of mind. Mahabharata and Ramayana have references to fly ing machines and in other societies also gods have always been portrayed as shining beings coming to earth from space. Almost all our scriptures talk about liberation from this planet earth and urge us to go to higher worlds or swargalok.”
o ANNA QUINDLEN –”There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which i might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger.”
o ANON –”The shortest distance between two points is under construction.”
o ANONYMOUS –”A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.”
o ANONYMOUS –”A yawn may not be polite, but at kast it u an honest opinion.”
o ANONYMOUS –”Grey hairisa blessing — ask any bald man.”
o ANONYMOUS –”Law of inflation: whatever goes up will go up some more.”
o ANONYMOUS –”Valentines Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is.”
o ANONYMOUS –”What makes stupidity really insufferable is that it is forever in action^ idiocy knows no rest.”
o ANONYMOUS –”You dont have to be a beer drinkerto play darts, but it helps.”
o ANTHONY DE MELLO –”My experience is that it’s precisely the ones who don’t know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life… As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for ameaningtolife… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualising mind.”
o ANTOINE DE STEXUPERY –”The great of the earth are those who leave silence and solitude around themselves, their work and their life, and let it ripen of its own accord.”
o ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER –”Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
o As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all karma to ashes.”
o ASMA SADIA –”One night i heard a knock on my door; Who can it be, i wasn’t quite sure. I open the door and am filled with glee; The visitor ahead is no stranger to me. I welcome the guest with utmost delight; For i know i will get respite. An air of happiness fills the space; My home now seems, a better place! Have you any clue who this visitor could be? Yes! It’s Ramadan, the month of mercy. The pious and righteous can’t await its arrival… For Allah we fast from dawn to dusk; For Him our breath is the fragrance of musk. Muslims who pray and fast with zest; Are aware of the rewards of this month manifest. Throughout this month we weep and repent; Now is the time to strongly lament. And those who shun this sacred month; On the Day of Reckoning will face the brunt. In the last ten nights, hides the Night of Decree; Allah then awaits for his slaves to plea. The angels descend with Gabriel in the lead; To check on the steadfast and record every deed. A feeling of grief now fills my heart; As the month of Ramadan will soon depart. So let’s make a start and worship Him alone; Now that the worth of this month is known.”
o ATHARVA VEDA –”Peaceful, sweet-smelling gracious, filled with mill and bearing nectar in her breast, may Earth give with the milk her blessings to me.”
o AUTHOR UNKNOWN –”Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy.”
o AUTHOR UNKNOWN –”Life is but a stopping place A pause in what’s to be A resting place along the road To sweet eternity. We all have different journeys, Different paths along the way, We all were meant to learn some things, But never meant to stay… Our destination is a place Far greater than we know. For some, the journey’s quicker, For some the journey’s slow. And when the journey finally ends, We’ll claim a great reward And find an everlasting peace, Together with the Lord.”
o AUTHOR UNKNOWN –”People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped.”
o AZTEC HISTORY –”The Sun, called Tonatiuh, was invoked by the names of “the shining one”, “the beautiful child”, “the eagle thatsoars”. He was generally represented by a disk, decorated in Aztec fashion. This disk is widely known because it is an essential part of the celebrated monument called the Aztec Calendar, which is simply a very elaborate representation of the Sun.”
o BARACK OBAMA –”Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire.”
o BERTRAND R USSELL –”Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of (humankind). Love brings ecstasy arid relieves loneliness. In the union of love i have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of (people). I have wished to know why the stars shineCries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but i cannot, And i too suffer. This has been my life; i found it worth living.”
o BHAGAVAD GITA –”
o BHAGAVAD GITA –”As men approach Me, so I receive them. All paths, Arjuna, lead to Me.”
o BHAGAVAD GITA –”Because you trust me, Arjuna,/1 will tell you what wisdom is,/The secret of life: know it/ And be free of suffering, forever. This is thesupreme wisdom,/ The knowing beyond all knowing,/ Experienced directly, in aflash,/ Eternal, and a joy to practice. Those who are without faith/ In my teaching, cannot attainme:/ They endlessly return to this world,/ Shuttling from death to death.”
o BHAGAVAD GITA –”None can go a day out of my path. All have to come to me. Whosoever wants to worship in whatsoever form, I give him faith in that form, and through that I meet him.”
o BHAGAVAD GITA –”One who doesn’t disturb others, and is not disturbed in return, who never exults in anything, is never jealous, fearful or worried, such a one is dear to Me… He who treats friends and foes alike, who is evenminded in honour and dishonour, calmly accepts warm and cold, pleasure and pain, praise and censure, who is tranquil and content,.. .he is dear to Me.”
o BHAGAVAD GITA –”The wise see with equal vision a learned and gentle priest, a cow, an elephant, a dog and an outcaste.”
o BLAISE PASCAL –”Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
o BR AMBEDKAR –”By independence, we have lost the excuse of blamingthe British for anything going wrong.”
o BULGARIAN PROVERB –”Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.”
o BYRON –”What an antithetical mind! -tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and grovelling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!”
o CARL GUSTAV JUNG –”In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one… All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings… But my encounters with the ‘other’ reality, my bouts with the unconsc ous, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.”
o CARL SAGAN –”An elegant representation of the creation of the universe at the beginning of each cosmic cycle is the cosmic dance of Shiva as Nataraja, the Dance King. In the upper right hand is a drum whose sound is the sound of creation. In the upper left hand is a tongue of flame, a reminder that the universe, now newly created, billions of years from now, will be utterly destroyed. These profound and lovely images are, i like to imagine, a kind of premonition of modern astronomical ideas.”
o CHAITANYA –”Krishna! Son of Maharaja Nanda! I am Your eternal servant; but now as a result of my previous activities i have fallen into this terrible ocean of material existence. Lust, greed, anger and envy are my adversaries; they lurk in the waters like big fish to swallow me up. The rough waves of wasted hopes and anxiety are tossing me here and there, making my life miserable. Lashing gales of bad association add further suffering. In this condition i see You asmyonly shelter, my only saviour.”
o CHAMFORT –”Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor kvieson the vanity of the rich.”
o CHANAKYA –”As gold is tested in four ways by rubbing, cutting, heating and beating – so a man should be tested by the following four things: his renunciation, conduct, qualities and his actions.”
o CHINESE PROVERB –”A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
o COLIN WILSON –”The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and Disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing zin the rain.”
o CONFUCIUS –”In the world there are many different roads but the destination is the same. There are a hundred deliberations but the result is one.”
o CONTRIBUTED BY TOIR CODERS –”The tenth day of Navratri is also Vidyarambham day when parents take their children to places of worship to initiate them into their first instruction, usually learning the alphabets.”
o D SUBBARAO –”Sustainability of the (economic) recovery requires returning to responsible fiscal consolidarion.”
o DANIEL WEBSTER –”Philosophical argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality. The Sermon on the Mount cannot merely be a human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my consciousness.”
o DAVID GERROLD –”The problem with the gene pool is that there s no lifeguard.”
o DAVID TRUMAN –”To some people, surrender suggests the loss of power. Looked at in another way: surrender could be an expression of freedomthe freedom to let inspiration flow, the freedom to love. After all, we can’t love if we can’t let love flow. In that sense, surrender is a way of gaining tremendous power, and using power effectively in the world.”
o DIONYSIUS THE ELDER –”Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
o DOUGLAS ADAMS –”In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of peopk very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” o DZOGCHEN TRADITION –”External matter and internal mind or consciousness – although they are distinct-do affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, thoughts and emotions that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.”
o EARL NIGHTINGALE –”What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.”
o EDITH WHARTON –”People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.”
o ELBERT HUBBARD –”If you want work mil done, select a busy man — the other kind has no time.”
o E-MAIL FORWARD –”Forgive quickly kiss passionately, love truly laugh constantly and never stop smiling no matter how strange life is. Life is not always the party we expected to be but as long as we are here, we should smile and be grateful.”
o EPES SARGENT –”A life on the ocean wave A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!”
o EPILOGUE INMUNDAWANI –”Three things are there in the vessel: Truth, contentment and intellect, The ambrosial Name of God is added to it, The Name that is everybody’s sustenance. He who absorbs and enjoys it Shall be saved. One must not abandon this gift, It should ever remain dear to one’s heart. The dark ocean of the world Can be crossed by clinging to His feet. Nanak, it is He who is everywhere. I can’t measure Your grace; You’ve made me worthy of You. I am full of blemishes; I have no virtue, You have been compassionate. Compassionate You have been and kind, Thus I met the True Guru. Nanak, I live on the Name alone, It pleases my heart and soul.”
o ERIC HOFFER –”We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.”
o ERMA BOMBECK –”Seize the moment Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.”
o ERNIE BANKS –”The only way to prove that youre a good sport is to lose.”
o FAIZAHMEDFAIZ –”Last night, your lost memories crept into my heart as spring arrives secretly into a barren garden as a cool morning breeze blows slowly in a desert as a sick person feels well, for no reason.”
o FRADITIONAL ONAM SONG –”When Mahabali, our King, rules the land, All the peoples form one casteless race. And people live joyful and merry; They are free from all harm. There is neither theft nor deceit, And no one is false in speech either. Measures and weights are right; ‘Jo one cheats or wrongs the neighbour. When Mahabali, our King, rules the land, All the peoples form one casteless race.”
o FRIEDNCH NIETZSCHE –”Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
o FROM THE MIDRASH –”When God created the first man he took him and led him round all the trees of the Garden of Eden and said to him: Look at my works, how beautiful they are! Take care that you do not corrupt and destroy my universe, for if you destroy it no one will repair it after you.”
o G.K. CHESTERTON –”The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
o GALILEO GALILEI –” All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” o GALILEO GALILEI –”And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.” o GALILEO GALILEI –”But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any otherperson, though very far distant, either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.”
o GALILEO GALILEI –”I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” o GALILEO GALILEI –”You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.” o GANGA STUTI –”Salutations to thatGanga, Who is dear to Lord Shiva, And who does good things. Salutations to you, Who has the fbnn ofRudre And who is also known as Sankari. Salutations to her who is the form of universe, And who is the form of Lord Brahma. Salutations to her who istheformofVedas, And who is the form of all medicines.”
o GARY ZUKAV –”Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the originalparticles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance of creation and annihilation, of mass changing into energy and energy changing into mass. Transient forms sparkle in and out of existence, creating a never-ending, forever newly created reality.”
o GARY ZUKAV –”You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don’t know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously. If you are unconscious of an aspect of yourself; if it operates outside your field of awareness, that aspect has power over you.”
o GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.”
o GEORGE BERNARD SHAW –”If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.”
o GORDON BROWN –”Where standards have been transgressed… action has got to be taken.”
o GURU GOBIND SINGH –”As ordained by the Lord Eternal A new way of life is evolved. All the Sikhs are asked to accept the Holy Granth as the Guru. Guru Granth should be accepted As the living Guru. Those who wish to meet God Will find Him in the word.”
o GURU GRANTH SAHIB –”This human body is transitory, and transitory are the garments it wears. Attached to duality, no one attains the Mansion of the Lord’s Presence.”
o GURU RAVIDAS –”0 people of the city, everyone knows/1 am a cobbler by trade and tanner by caste/ One of the low castes, and yet within my heart/1 meditate upon God./ I am haunted day and night by the thought/ Of my low birth, society and deeds/ 0 God! The Lord of the Universe!/ 0 life of my life – forget me not/ ; I am ever Thy slave.”
o GURU RAVIDAS –”The company i keep is wretched and low, and i am anxious day and night; my actions are crooked, and i am of lowly birth.”
o GURU RAVIDAS –”The One Universal Creator God! Truth Is The Name. Creative Being Personified.”
o GURU RAVIDAS –”You are me, and i am You. What fe the difference between us? We are like gold and the bracelet, or water and the waves. Ifi did not commit any sins, 0 Infinite Lord, how would You have acquired the name, ‘Redeemer of sinners’?”
o GURU RAVIDAS –”You are my Master, the Innerknower. Searcher of hearts. The servant is known by his God, and the Lord and Master is known by His servant. Grant me the wisdom to worship and adore You with my body. 0 Ravi Das, one who understands that the Lord is equally in all, is very rare.”
o HARI DAM –”You live in time, we live in space. You’re always on the move; we’re always at rest. Religion is our first love; we revel in metaphysics. Science is your passion; you delight in physics. You believe in freedom of speech; you strive for articulation. We believe in freedom of silence; we lapse into meditation.”
o He prayeth well who loveth well/ Both man and bird and beast/ He prayeth best, who loveth best/ All things both great and small/ For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.”
o HEINRICH HIMMLER –”The best political weapon is the weapon of terror.”
o HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON –”Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.”
o HENRY D THOREAU –”As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
o HENRY DAVID THOREAU –”How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
o HERBERT M SHELTON –”At the very dawn of civilisation the Ancient Mysteries, a secret worship or wisdom religion that flourished for thousands of years in Egypt, India, Greece, Persia, Thrace, Scandinavia and the Gothic and Celtic nations, prescribed and practised fasting. The Druidical religion among the Celtic peoples required a long probationary period of fasting and prayer before the candidate could advance A fast of 50 days was required in the Mithriac religion in Persia.”
o HOMER SIMPSON –”Heres to alcohol: the came of, and solution to, all oflifes problems.”
o HOMER SIMPSON –”I’m not normally a praying man, but if You’re up there, please save me, Superman!”
o HUMPHREY BOGART –”The only thing that you owe the public is a good performance.”
o ITALO CALVINO –”There should be a time in adult life devoted to revising the most important books of our youth. Even if the books have remained the same (though they do change in the light of altered historical perspective), we have most certainly changed, and our encounter will be an entirely new thing.”
o J KRISHNAMURTI –”It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment y^ou are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
o JAIN BLOG –”The Five Vows are: To practise non-violence or ahimsa by bit causing harm to any living being, to always speak the truth that is, follow Satya, to refrain from stealing by not taking anything that is not given willingly, to follow celibacy by avoiding sensual pleasures, and to remain detached and so follow non-possession or aparigraha.”
o JAIN THOUGHT –”The Universe is a composite of groups consisting of adverse pairs like knowledge and ignorance, pleasure and sorrow, life and death and so on. Life depends on such adverse groups. All the groups have their own interests, which create clashes and conflicts in thinking among themselves. Reality possesses infinite characteristics, which cannot be perceived or known at once by any ordinary man. Different people think about different aspects of the same reality and therefore their partial findings are contradictory to one another… Jaina philosophers established the theory of a Nonabsolutist standpoint Anekantavada with its two wings, Nayavada and Syadvada. Proper understanding of the coexistence of mutually opposing groups through these principles rescues one from conflicts. Mutual cooperation is the Law of Nature.”
o JAINISM –”The word “Paryushan” has several meanings: Pari + ushan = all kinds + to burn = to burn (shed) our all types ofkarmas. To shed our karmas, we do 12 different types of austerities including fasting. Another meaning of “ushan” is to stay closer. To stay closer to our own soul from all directions and to stay absorbed in our ownself (soul), we do svadhyaya (self-study), meditation, austerities, etc. Pari + upshamana = upshamana means to overcome, to overcome our passions (kashayas – anger, ego, deceit and greed) from all directions.”
o JAINWORLD.COM –”The Paryushan Parva is celebrated every year by members of the Jain community for self-purification and uplift – by ad- hering to the 10 universal virtues in practical life. This is meant to lead adherents on the right path, far from the mad strife for material prosperity, which ultimately leads the follower to his true destination-salvation.”
o JALALUDDIN RUMI –”Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies, friends.”
o JALALUDDIN RUMI –”Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbour. Cautious people say, “I’ll do nothing until i can be sure,” Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don’t be oneof those merchants who won’t risk the ocean.”
o JALALUDDIN RUMI –”The minute i heard my first love story, I started looking for you, nyt knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, They’re in each other all along.”
o JALALUDDIN 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.”
o JAMES C. HAGERTY –”If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he’ll get rich or famous or both.”
o JAMES M BARRIE –”If you have it (love), you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.”
o JATAKA –”On the eastern side of this Himalaya, the king of mountains, are green-flowing streams, having their source in slight and gentle mountain slopes; blue, white and the hundredleafed, the white lily and the tree of paradise, in a region overrun and beautified with all manner of trees and flowing shrubs and creepers, resounding with the cries of swans, ducks and geese, inhabited by troops of monks and ascetics….”
o JAY A ROW –”Sattvik daan is the charity given through a sense of duty, without expectation of anything in return, to deserving persons and at the right time and place. In rajasik daan, the charity may not be given with a willing disposition; it might. be given grudgingly. Or it may be given with the expectation of something in return. Charity given to institutions in which the donor’s name and amount is displayed on a plaque as proclamation of the donor’s generosity is rajasik daan. Tamasik daan is charity given for immoral purposes or given contemptuously with the intent to make the recipient of the charity feel obligated. In contrast, in sattvik daan it is the donor who feels obligated for being given an opportunity to serve.”
o JESUS MATTHEW –”When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues andat the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, i say to you, they have their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret, will reward you.”
o JOHN ERSKINE –”Theres a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful.”
o JOHN HER SCHEL –”To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling.”
o JOHN KERRY –”With its nuclear arsenal, terrorist safe havens… Pakistan has emerged as one of the most difficult foreign policy challenges.”
o JOHN SLADEK –”The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.”
o JOHN STEUINBECK –”I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”
o JOHN UPDIKE –”Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
o JONATHAN LETHEM –”I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I’m part oftHe human world.”
o JONATHAN SWIFT –”I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.”
o KABIR –”The river and its waves are one: where is the difference between the river and its waves? When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction? Because it has been named as wave, . shall it no longer be considered as water? Within the Supreme Brahmn, the worlds are like beads: Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.”
o KAHLIL GIBRAN –”When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, andyou shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
o KAHLIL GIBRAN –”You pray in your distress and in your need, would that thou might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”
o KAHLILGIBRAN –”People ofOrphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
o KALIDASA –”When the water of the Ganges and the water of the Yamuna mingle, it appears as though diamonds and sapphires were woven together in a string; as though a flock of white swans had suddenly run into another flock of black swans; as though a garland of white lotus-buds was interspersed with blue lotuses; as though a streak of lightning had merged into a sheet of darkness; as though a clear blue sky was spotted with wooly clouds of autumn.”
o KAPIL SIBAL –”This traumatic experience is unacceptable. ‘I don’t think children in our country should study under pressure.”
o KARL KRAUS –”How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what tfwy read.”
o KATHA UPANISHAD –”He who has not first turned away from his wickedness, who is not tranquil, and subdued, or whose mind is not at rest, he can never obtain the Self (even) by knowledge.”
o KISHORE ASTHANA –”I met a man in/ Varanasi/ In a narrow/ lane/ Eyes like/ pools, dark and deep/ Lit in a/ leonine mane Sitting by the/ wayside/ Reading a holy/ book/ As i passed by,/ he said something/ And stopped me/ with a look In silence i/ stood, as he/ Scanned me up/ and down/ Then smiled a/ ruefulsmile/And slowly/ eased his frown He spoke and in/his voice/1 heard ancients/ of yore/ You’ve been/ called many times/But you follow/ the Path no more Look inside/ and you will see/If your actions/ are just and true/ You are here/ for a purpose/You haven’t/ forgotten, have you?”
o KISHORE ASTHANA –”My body Daughter of the earth Moves with the Earth Mymind Is a whirling dervish Dancing a dance Ofecstasy Faster and faster Till an eddy forms And all escapes Into nothingness Leaving me In a place beyond words The body forgotten The mind drained All is still And, in the calm The universes, silently, Expand in me As All-That-Is becomes All I Can Be.”
o KORAN SINGH –”The Entire Cosmos is all pervaded by the same divine power. There is no ultimate duality inhuman existence or in consciousness… The Newtonian-CartesianMarxist paradigm of a materialistic universe has now been finally abolished, it has collapsed in the face of the new physics. Our ancient seers had deeper insights into the nature of reality than people had even until very recently.”
o LALLA DED –”Now i saw a stream flowing; Now neither bank nor bridge was seen. Now i saw a bush in bloom; Now neither rose nor thorn was seen.”
o LANCET &UCL; REPORT –”Effects of climate change on health will… put the lives and well-being of billions of people at increased risk.”
o LAO TZU –”Silence is a source of great strength.”
o LEO BEENHAKKER –”A hobby is only fun if you do not have time to do it.”
o LEONELDRED –”If i’d known! was going to live so long, i’d have taken better care of myself… (and the planet?”
o LEWIS SMEDES –”To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
o LISA RANDALL –”The problem with detecting the fifth dimension (or the sixth, seventh, and so on) is that our bodies are built to measure only the three old-fashioned spatial dimensions, plus time as a fourth dimension. .. but the possibility of discovery of many more dimensions is tantalising, even probable, some time in the distant future.”
o MAHARISHIMAHESH YOGI –”Brahmn is spoken of as Sat-Chit-Ananda but includes what is not Sat, what is not Chit, and what is not Ananda. It is beyond speech and thought, yet the whole range of thought and speech lies wi-thin It. ‘Within It’ and -without It’ are just expressions, and like any other expressions about Brahmn they do justice neither to Brahmn nor to the speaker nor to the listener.” o MAHARISHIMAHESH YOGI –”Brahmn is that which cannot be expressed in words, even though the Upanishads use words to educate about Its nature.” o MAHARISHIMAHESH YOGI –”Brahmn is the value of our life and the truth of it is that it is lived’with ease’.”
o MAHARISHIMAHESH YOGI –”In the field of speech, Brahmn lies between two contrary statements. It is absolute and relative at the same time. It is the eternal imperishable even while It is ever changing. It is said to be both This and That.” o MAHARISHIMAHESH YOGI –”The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 2.29) speaks of It as a “wonder”, for it is not anything that can be conceived of intellectually; it is not anything that can be appreciated by emotion…” o MAHARISHIMAHESH YOGI –”Words are inadequateto encompass That which is the unlimited fullness of transcendental Being and the fullness of active life at the same time.” o MAHARISHIMAHESHYOGI –”Brahmn, which is an all-pervading mass of bliss, does not exhibit any quality of bliss. It may be likened to a mass of energy-matter which does not exhibit any quality of energy…” o MAHATMA GANDHI –”And then the Kumbh Mela arrived. It was a great moment for me. I have never tried to seek holiness or divinity as a pilgrim, but 1.7 million people cannot be hypocrites.”
o MAMANGDAI –”Everything has life rocks, stones, trees, rivers, hills, and all life is sacred. This is called Donyi-Polo, literally meaning Donyi-Sun, and Polo-moon as the physical manifestation of a supreme deity, or what i like to interpret as’world spirit’.”
o MAMMOHAM SINGH –”The five years in front of us could well be a decisive half-decade.”
o MANMOHAN SINGH –”There are reforms waiting to be taken up at all levels of government.”
o MANMOHAN SINGH –”We wanted to do a thorough exercise, looking at experience and availability of talent.”
o MARCEL PROUST –”The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
o MARK ADELSON –”If all you’ve had for the past three weeks is pizza tuna fish looks pretty good.”
o MARK HELPRIN –”Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.”
o MARYAMANNES –”Borders are scratched across our hearts by strangers with a calm, judicial pen. When the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.”
o MASAMI SATO –”People who give more of their time, money, kindness, love and ideas have more of these things because that’s the balance. And balance is the natural law of life.”
o MATTHEW –”If you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”
o MEPPATHUR NARAYANA BHATTATIRI –”Full of pride, King Mahabali says to Vishnu, incarnated as amana, the diminutive ‘rahmin: ‘How is it that you beg of me, the master of the worlds, only for hree feet of earth? You must be a fool to do so. Why not ask for the whole earth? since Ball’s pride had to be adicated before the king became eligible for the attainment of eternal »eace, he was subject to ondage on his failure to ?ift the full three feet of ,nd, however undeserving of this he might have een in other respects… When the Asura king made a gift of all his possessions to Thee withoutthe least lesitation, rishis and devas showeredflowers. As the worlds looked on, Thy form grew bigger and bigger to cosmic dimensions…”
o MK GANDHI –”I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
o MK GANDHI –”In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
o MOOT MANTRA –”There is but one God; His name is Truth; He is the Creator; He fears none nor does He hate anyone. He is in the image of the Eternal.”
o MOTHER TERESA –”We need to find God,. and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grassgrows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
o MUNICH –”Forget peace for now. We have to show them were strong.”
o NELSON MANDELA –”Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am i to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same.”
o NEW JAIN PRAYER –”If shot by a gun or pistol, or beaten by a stick, if bound and thrown into a prison, May i lose my body, but not my noble forgiveness.”
o NEWS REPORT –”Rebellious Rajasthan BJP leader Vasundhara Raje’s camp on Monday stated that the former chief minister will not step down as assembly’s leader of the opposition. Raje’s loyalists insisted that she will continue to hold the post till the next assembly elections.”
o NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI –”I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
o NITIN GADKARI –”Try to make your own shadow bigger, not to cut someone else down to size.”
o OLDJAINPRAYER –”I grant forgiveness to all living beings May all the living beings please forgive me. I have friendship with all the living beings. I have no hostility towards anyone.”
o OLYMPIA DUKAKIS –”I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don’t think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.”
o ORSON REGA CARD –”Among my most priced possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
o OSHO –”Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise – the traffic in the head. So many thoughts – trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation.”
o OSHO –”Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder. All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.”
o OSHO –”The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror.”
o OSHO –”The truth is, i am, there fore i think. We exist first and then express ourselves as bodies in physical dimension.”
o OWENS LEE POMEROY –”Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense, but the past perfect.”
o PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA –”So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.”
o PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA –”In the universal sense, love is the divine power of attraction in Creation that harmonises, unites, binds together…”
o PAUL MAC CREADY JR –”Your grandchildren wiU likely find it incredibk — or even sinful—that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!”
o PAULA COLE –”It’s me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.”
o PETER DRUCKER –”
o PHRA AJAHN PONGSAK TECHATHAMMO –”The balance of nature is achieved and regulated by the functions of the forest. So the survival of the forest is essential to the survival of siladhamma [harmony] and our environment. It’s all interdependent. When we protect the forest we protect the world. When we destroy the forest we destroy that balance.”
o POONAM SRIVASTAVA –”The mirror Fogged by steam Momentarily Rendered invalid With blinded reflection Moments later The fog cleanses the mirror Reflecting brighter images Than before.”
o POPE JOHN PAUL II –”so that it will lead to practical programmes and initiatives. An awareness of the relationship between God and humankind brings a fuller sense of the importance of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment, which is God’s creation and which God entrusted to us to guard with wisdom and love.”
o PRAFUL PATEL –”Growth of the sector in the past few years has brought about its own challenges.”
o PRANAB MUKHERJEE –”We have good ties with the Left. But they have never kept pace with the developments.”
o PRATIBHA KORAN –”The holy month ofRamzan (or Ramadan as they say in West Asia) is a month of prayer, austerity and charity – and fasting constitutes its most important component. Perhaps because of this, Ramzan is equally associated with food, of feasting as much as fasting… Soon, it will be Eid… Iftar parties, too, have become celebrations of good food, .with biryanis and pulaos taking pride of place.”
o PRATIBHA PATIL –”My government is determined to work harder and better to realise (its) goals.”
o PRATIBHA PATIL –”There is a need to focus urban housing programmes on the poor living in slums.”
o PROPHET MOHAMMAD –”Shall I not inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and prayers? Making peace between one another: enmity and malice tear up heavenly rewards by the roots…”
o PSALM –”Hethatdwellethin the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
o PSALMS –”But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.”
o QURAN –”If they seek peace, then seek you peace. And trust in God for He is the One that heareth and knoweth all things.”
o QURAN –”No creature is there crawling on the earth, no bird fly ing with its wings, but they are nations like yourselves. We have neglected nothing in the Book; then to their Lord they shall be mustered.”
o QURAN –”Our Lord! Forgive us our sins as well as those of our brethren who preceded us in faith and let not our heart entertain any unworthy thoughts or feelings against [any of] those who have believed. Our Lord! You are indeed full of kindness and most merciful.”
o QURAN –”Our Lord! Grant us good in this world and good in the life to come and keep us safe from the torment of the Fire.”
o QURAN –”Our Lord! You embrace all things within Your Grace and Knowledge, forgive those who repentand follow Your path, and ward off from them the punishment of Hell. Our Lord! Make them enter the Garden of Eden, which You have promised to them, and to the righteous from among their fathers, their wives and their offspring, for verity You are alone the Almighty and the truly Wise.”
o RABINDRANATH TAGORE –”The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union. The newer people, of this modem age, are more eager to amass than to realise.”
o RACHEL CARSON –”Every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”
o RAHUL GANDHI –”India belongs to Indiansand every part of India belongs to every Indian.”
o RALPH WALDO EMERSON –”A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”
o Rama had performed Chandi Horn (sacrificial fire) and invoked the blessings ofDurga to overcome Ravana. Durga blessed Rama with the secret to accomplish the task. Ravana was defeated in his kingdom of Lanka by Rama and the monkey army, the vanarsena. Rama with Sita and Lakshmana returned victorious to his kingdom ofAyodhya on the Ashwin Shukia dashami. This victory is since then celebrated as.” o RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA –”I have now come to a stage of realisation in which i see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through sage and sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when i meet different people i say to myself: “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous. God in the form of the unrighteous.”
o RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE –”Why Krishna? Krishna means Shyam, the dark One and not exactly black It is said that Krishna was born on the dark night ofAshtami, hence he came to be called Krishna. ‘Krishna’, apart from the well-known meaning ‘the dark One’, also has another meaning – ‘the attractive One’. The ; Sanskrit root is ‘karsh’ which means ‘to pull’, ‘to attract’, whichhas come down to Hindi and other Indian languages in words like ‘akarshan’.”
o RICHARD GORDON –”There’s nothing like an airport for bringing you down to earth.”
o RICHARD HOLBROOKE –”We need to put the most heavy possible pressure on our funds in Pakistan to Join us in the fight against the Taliban…”
o RIG VEDA –”Waters contain/All disease- dispelling medicaments,/ Useful for the upkeep of our body,/ So that we may live long/ To enjoy the bright sun./ That there is ambrosia in waters,/ There is healing balm in them,/ And there are medicinal herbs,/ Know this all,/ And by their proper use become wiser.”
o ROBERT HALF –”There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.”
o RONALD REAGAN –”You can’t massacre an idea, you cannot run tanks over hope.”
o SACHIN PILOT –”I am just happy at being given an opportunity to discharge responsibilities.”
o SALMAN RUSHDIE –”I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.”
o SAM PITRODA –”It is very important that in India today we have a strong government… We don’t want to lose the momentum.”
o SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE –”
o SARAH McLACHLAN –”Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.”
o SHAKESPEARE –”How can my Muse want subject to invent.While thou dost breathe, that pour’st into my verse Thine own sweet argument? …Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worthThan those old nine which rhymers invocate.”
o SHAKTI GAWAIN –”The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs. So… relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth…. If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them.”
o SIDNEY JM LOW –”Nothing more impressive, picturesque, and pregnant with meaning and significance than Kumbh Mela can be witnessed in all of India.”
o SKANNAN, VEDVIKAS –”We are never alone as a species in the Universe. Wearealsointer-connected with the Earth, Sun, Moon and other planets orbiting in their appointed domains. In the ultimate reality, nothing remains unconnected in the cosmos. Aligning one’s consciousness in line with the principles of natural law, we can march towards perfection. .. Maintenance of natural order and pristine ecological balance is the sine qua non for ensuring well-being. The Vedas specify four types of living beings, namely, andaja – born of eggsJivaja-bornof ^ womb.svedaja.-bornof moisture and udbhijaborn of earth and declare that these are impelled by Prajnanam; or consciousness.”
o SM KRISHNA –”We will resist the forces of terrorism resolutely and with firmness and determination.”
o SOCRATES –”A life that is unexamined is not worth living.”
o SONIA GANDHI –”The people of India know what is good for them and they always make the right choice.”
o SPIRITUALPLATFORM.ORG –”Many dreamers have described the ability to fly in their dreams as a liberating experience. Flying with ease and looking down at the landscape below signifies that you are prepared and on top o; a situation or that you have risen above something. It may also mean that you have gained a different perspective on things. Flying dreams and your ability to control your flight is representative of your own personal sense of power. Having difficulties staying in flight signifies your own lack of power in controlling your own circumstances… If you are feeling fear when you are flying or that you feel that you are flying too high, it suggests that you are afraid of challenges and of success.”
o SRI NARAYANA GURU –”Everyone, in every way, strives always to ctualise sel^happiness. This faith in self-happiness is so in all the worlds.”
o SRI SATHYA SAI BABA –”Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we find many well versed and highly qualified in this aspect The second aspect known is related to human values – that which is within. Human values are latent in every human being; one cannot acquire them from outside. They have to be elicited from within.”
o SRI SATHYA SAI BABA –”God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.”
o SRI SATHYA SAI BABA –”Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.”
o SRI SATHYA SAIBABA –”As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to ob, jects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. He told him that once he was free of body consciousness he would be able to develop integral vision. Embodiments of Love, Mankind today has three types of vision. The first is body-oriented vision, which is totally superficial. When you have this kind of vision you see only the external appearance of others, such as the clothes and the orna- ments they wear, their facial features, their body characteristics, their peculiarities of speech, etc. This type of vision is oriented only towards the phenomenal world. The second kind of vision is insightful vision.”
o SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR –”You have been given the highest blessing, the most precious knowledge on this planet. You are the Divine Self; you are part of the Self. Walk with that confidence. It’s not arrogance. It’s Love.”
o SRI SRIRAVI SHANKAR –”We need to be aware of our own selves, our body, our breath, our mind, how the mind works. So the first thing that a student was given was to make him realise “Who you are?” Get confident.”
o STEPHEN KING –”A life of giving-not just money, but time and spirit – repays. It helps us remember that we may be going out broke, but right now we’re doing OK. Right now we have the power to do great good for others and for ourselves.”
o STEVIE WONDER –”Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesnt mean he lacks vision.”
o SUFI PROVERB –”I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”
o SUN MYUNG MOON –”The order of existence in the universe is rooted in acting for the sake of others. The world of true peace, love and the ideal is both the ideal of God’s creation and the desire of humankind. Therefore, the origin of happiness and peace lies in livingfor the sake of others.”
o SWAMI MUNI NARAYANA PRASAD –”The world Sri Narayana Guru thought of is not merely the physical ne… it is not merely the here and now. It is the physical and mental orlds… it is the here and the hereafter together. The ultimate reality he perceives is the Substance that unfolds itself as “this world”. He called the reality as atian. The mysterious cretive potential hidden in his equally mysterious tman, to unfold itself as all these worlds from itself, is called maya. ^tman is consciousness r arivu, also called cit or mivit. Narayana Guru’s examples were simple. Takea piece of cloth. analyse it and the cloth isappears into its thread content. Analyse that nd it disappears into the being of cotton fibres. analyse the fibre, and it isappears into the being Fthe five basic elements; Fhese elements in their ure form exist nowher except as principles. The existence of any principle, in its turn, is only as i knowledge setting for mulated in Consciousness or mind, and thus it is Consciousness or irivu or cit that appears is the basic elements as fibre, as threads, as cloth and finally as verything in the world.”
o SWAMI PARTHASARATHY –”It is not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it.”
o SWAMI RAMDAS –”Foryou the world outside will now stand transformed as the very expression or manifestation of God, everywhere the Light of God will dazzle your eyes; even in the apparent diversity and activityofnature you will strangely be conscious of an all-pervading stillness and peace of the Eternal, a consciousness which is unshakably permanent. You will also feel that you are liberated from the harassing dualities of lift followed by the crownini experience of an abiding state of ineffable ecstasy.”
o SWAMI TYAGARUPANANDA –”This deep self-confidence, uncompromising quest for Truth is a lesson for all of us.”
o SWAMI VIBUDHESHA TEERTHA –”Do not use anything belonging to nature such as oil, coal or forest, at a greater rate than you can replenish it. For example, do not destroy birds, fish, earthworms and even bacteria which play vital ecological roles – once they are annihilated you cannot recreate them.”
o SWAMI VIUEKANANDA –”The secret of life is education through experience.”
o SWAMI VIVEKANANDA –”Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. If we can bring ourselves down by our karma, surely it is in our power to raise ourselves by our own karma.”
o SWAMI VIVEKANANDA –”The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything!”
o SYDNEY J. HARRIS –”Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.”
o THE IV DALAI LAMA –”With realisation of your own potential and self-confidence in your ability, you can build a better world, a better life.”
o THE KINKS –”Girls will be boys and boys will be girls/ It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world.”
o THE RIVER –”Do not stay too long by the river. The river is a wayward god. It is an elephant, a lion. Sometimes they call it horse; One summer we thought it was a peacock, turning in the yellow sand filling our eyes with gold. I saw a woman floating in a lily pond in a mountain covered in mist, wrapped in a cloud streaming with tendrils and pollen dust I thought the river is a woman. A country, a name, A note of music trapped in the white current A sheet of paper carrying a secret map The skyline is where it begins between the darkness and the summit in the birthplace of thirst, Do not stay too long by the river. It is a drowning spirit, A strong armed god drawing and withdrawing such seasonsFlowing river, standing still; River sea. River ocean. River of all our summers collecting the salt of our lives.”
o THE RIVER KNOWS –”The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend If only you are willing Your mind they’11 ease Your will they’11 mend And charge you not a shilling.”
o THE XIV DALAI LAMA –”The essence of spiritual practice is your attitude towards others. Whe you have a pure, since motivation, then you have right attitude to wards others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.”
o THE XIV DALAI LAMA –”We are human beings, and we have this marvellous brain and marvellous heart, so there is potential to develop a proper mental attitude, through which we can have a happy, more peaceful life… Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful.”
o THICH NHATHANH –”We have to respect the lives of animals, the vegetable and mineral realms and the earth itself.”
o THIRUMURAI –”The Lord is both inside and outside, form and no form. He is both the flood and the bank. He is the broad-rayed sun. Himself the highest mystery, He is in all hidden thoughts. He is thought and meaning, and embraces all who embrace Him.”
o VANAPARVAN –”At Meru the sun and the moon go round from left to right (pradakshinam) every day, and so do all the stars. The mountain, by its lustre, so overcomes the darkness of night, that the night can hardly be distinguished from the day. The day and the night are together equal to a year to the residents of the place.”
o VEDIC PRAYER –”0 Lord Lead Us From The Unreal To The Real, Lead Us From Untruth To Truth, Lead Us From Darkness To Light, Lead Us From Death To Immortality, Oh God Let There Be Peace, Peace, Peace.”
o VEDICHYMNS –”Always worship The Sun’ (our energy source) sitting at the centre of his galaxy on Lotus, wearing Keyoor, Makarkundal crown and holding conch, chakra and having glittering golden body… 0, radiant Sun rising in the sky, please destroy the disease in my heart as well as diseases of my external body. Let inner and outer diseases of my body be destroyed by brilliantly shining Sun – the son ofAditi… Those who perform Surya Namaskars daily, do not face poverty in life (this actually relates to richness of health, not financial matters), one does not face early death or suffer from diseases. Drink the water kept before the Sun…”
o VIJAYADASHAMI –”Vijayadashami is an auspicious day in South India for starting formal education. Students keep their books aside and workers their tools on the Durgashtami or eight day ofNavratri, only to start afresh after offering prayers on the tenth day” o VINOBA BHAVE –”In the age of science we have to rise above all faiths and develop one manava dharma. Our perception will continue to expand due to science, and expanded consciousness is dharma. I have full faith that dharma will be established on the foundation of science.”
o W.EDWARDS DOMING –”It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”
o WAYNE DYER –”All of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives.” o WAYNE DYER –”How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
o WH AUDEN –”To choose what is difficult all one’s days, as if it were easy, that is faith.” o WILLIAM FEATHER –”Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic wastes.” o WILLIAM HAZLITT –”I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.”
o WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN –”Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.” o WILLIAM PENN –”No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.” o WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE –”Every man dies – not every man really lives.” o WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –”Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven.”
o WILLIAM SHATNER –”Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene – but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.” o WILSON MIZNER –”A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool usually has his suspicions.”
o WINSTON CHURCHILL –”Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” o WINSTON CHURCHILL –”I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”