MY FAVOURITE QUOTES
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.”
Albert Einstein
One of the worlds most celebrated scientists.
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“Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.”
Socrates
Greek Philosopher and a founder of western Philosophy,
accredited to being the first Moral Philosopher of the Western ethical tradition.
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“In the stage of perfection called trance, or ‘Samadhi’, one’s mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga (meditation). This perfection is characterized by one’s ability to see the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self. In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless, transcendental happiness, realized through transcendental senses.
Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty.
This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact”
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Extract from ‘The Bhagavad-Gita’ As it is.
International Founder of Krishna Consciousness.
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“One God and father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all”
Ephesians 4.6
Extract from ‘New King James version’
‘The Holy Bible’
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“As the soul feels itself growing too strong to be shaken, and yet feels every thrill that comes from without, it has a sense of wider life, it has a sense of fuller harmony, it has a sense of ever increasing consciousness, of ever growing oneness with that of which it is a part”
Annie Besant
Extract from ‘Meditations’
‘On the path and its qualifications’
Second President of the Theosophical Society 1907-1933
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“Enlightenment is achieved by means of transcendental wisdom (prajna), which in turn arrises from the joint mastery of tranquility (samatha) and insight (vipasjana). “Insight” here means two inter dependent aspects: the process and the result. The process is the analysis while the result is a deeper vision of reality. Yet it must be pointed out that such insight cannot emerge without the essential support of inner purity, calmness and clarity, all of which are intimately connected with the meditation on tranquility. “Tranquility” means a quietude of body and mind. A special quality that this tranquility contains is “perfect Ease”, which turns body and mind into a tractable and efficient spiritual vessel”.
Takpo Tashi Namgyal
Extract from the ‘Mahamudra’
‘The quintessence of mind and meditation’
(The Mahamudra is a translation of Ancient Tibetan writings)
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“Only by shedding your outer will you discover your magnificence, realising that you are nothing, knowing that you are everything”
Viviana Verheesen
Author and dedicated Truth seeker
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“From the height of spiritual vision, we do not look upon each other as man or woman, as rich or poor, as great or humble. All human values are submerged in our common interest to seek and find the kingdom within. We see each other as travelers on the path of light; we share our unfoldments, our experiences, and our spiritual resources. We would not hold any of these from each other”.
‘We Live under the illusion that material forces and ‘human will’ are great powers until we learn that within our own being there is a spiritual power that dispels this illusion.”
“Our part is to recognize its presence within ourselves and let it fulfil its mission”.
“Let the harmonies of spiritual existence unfold from within you and lead you out of the bondage of sense into the promised land of peace”.
Joel S. Goldsmith
Extracts from ‘The Infinite way’
Author and dedicated Truth seeker
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“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
Nikola Tesla
Inventer, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, best known for his contributions
to the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
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Plato viewed human beings as inherently rational, social souls burdened by imprisonment within their physical bodies.
Plato
Greek philosopher,
founder of the Platonist school of thought,
the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.