Wisdom quotes of the week
- "A person knows whom to trust the most when he clearly knows who puts the trust on him in time of his wealth lost."
- “They say that life is an accident, driven by sexual desire, that the universe has no moral order, no truth, no God.
- Driven by insatiable lusts, drunk on the arrogance of power, hypocritical, deluded, their actions foul with self-seeking, tormented by a vast anxiety that continues until their death, convinced that the gratification of desire is life's sole aim, bound by a hundred shackles of hope, enslaved by their greed, they squander their time dishonestly piling up mountains of wealth.
- "Today I got this desire, and tomorrow I will get that one; all these riches are mine, and soon I will have even more. Already I have killed these enemies, and soon I will kill the rest. I am the lord, the enjoyer, successful, happy, and strong, noble, and rich, and famous. Who on earth is my equal?”―Ved Vyasa,The Bhagavad Gita
- “Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.
- “The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They arise from sense perception,and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.”
- “He who has let go of hatred who treats all beings with kindness and compassion, who is always serene, unmoved by pain or pleasure, free of the "I" and "mine,"self-controlled, firm and patient, his whole mind focused on me that is the man I love best.” -The Bhagavad Gita
- “For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.” ―Anonymous,The Bhagavad Gita
- Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
- Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.
- The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice.
- You should keep your mind pure, for what a person thinks, he becomes—this is the eternal mystery… When the mind is silent… you can transcend the mind. (Maitri Upanishad)
- Which is as poison in the beginning, but is like nectar in the end; that is declared to be "good" pleasure, born from the serenity of one's own mind. That which is like nectar in the beginning from the connection of the sense-object with the senses, but is as poison in the end, is held to be of "passion". ―The Bhagavad Gita
- There is a path of joy and there is the path of pleasure. Pondering on them, the wise (one) chooses the of joy; the fool takes the path of pleasure. ―The Bhagavad Gita
- Both the good and the pleasant approach a man. The wise man, pondering over them, discriminates. The wise chooses the good in preference to the pleasant. The simple-minded, for the sake of worldly well-being, prefers the pleasant.
- "As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action."
- "The smallest good deed is better than the greatest intention." - Anonymous
- "The strength of a tree lies in it's ability to bend." - ZenProverb
- "Love what you do, do what you love."- Zen Proverb
- "Three things cannot be hidden; the sun, the moon and the truth."- Buddha
- "When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills."- Chinese Proverb
- "Let go, or be dragged." - Zen Proverb
- I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
- I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! –Theodore Roosevelt
