Full of gratitude - Sacred Quotes

"Fill your hearts with love and gratitude. Life gives us what we need and not necessarily what we want. It follows its own wisdom, which is often incomprehensible to our gross minds. We should learn to accept situations in life. This attitude of acceptance is the secret to happiness." - Mata Amritanandamayi

"Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After you have been silent you must enjoy it, you must have a thanksgiving. A deep gratitude must be shown towards the whole just for the opportunity that you are, that you can meditate, that you can be silent, that you can laugh." - Osho

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank you", that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart

Being Courteous - Sacred Quotes

"Rama was kind and courteous and never ill.
To harsh words he returned no blame."

Ramayana,
Retold by William Buck

"Humility and courtesy are acts of piety."
Sayings of the Prophet


"Be pitiful, be courteous: not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing."
1 Peter 3:8-11


"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
St Basil


"To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue."
Proverb


"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."
Jacques Maritain

Who am I? - Sacred Quotes

"He who sees the Self, sees only the Self in the world also. To the jnani, it is immaterial whether the world appears or not. Whether it appears or not, his attention is always on the Self. It is like the letters and the paper on which the letters are printed. You are wholly engrossed with the letters and have no attention left for the paper. But the jnani thinks only of the paper as the real substratum, whether the letters appear on it or not." - Ramana Maharshi

"Let me think: was i the same when i got up this morning? I almost think i can remember feeling a little different. But if i'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am i? Ah, that's the great puzzle!" - Lewis Carroll

"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are." - Confucius

Breaking news - Sacred Quotes

"Harmony seldom makes a headline." - Silas Bent

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive." - G K Chesterton

"We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder." - The Houghton Line November 1965

"The duty of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information." - Christopher Lasch

"In the spiderweb of facts, many a truth is strangled." - Paul Eldridge

"No news is good news. No journalist is even better." - Nicolas Bentley

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." - M K Gandhi

Profound Humour - Sacred Quotes

"Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table." - The XIV Dalai Lama

"If there were no God, there would be no atheists." - G K Chesterton

"If i were not an atheist, i would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul." - Isaac Asimov

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach

"An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books." - Samuel Butler

Cause for celebration - Sacred Quotes

"Your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing; whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and eating becomes a celebration; you take a bath, and bathing becomes a celebration; you talk, and talking becomes a celebration." - Osho

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Gautama Buddha

"When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be the symbol of the new mythology to come; this is the country we will celebrate, and these are the people we are one with." - Joseph Campbell

"Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning, for i still live, as i pass to and fro through the mouths of men." - Quintus Ennius

Journey of Life - Sacred Quotes

"It is better to travel well than to arrive...There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth... not going all the way, and not starting." - Gautama Buddha

"Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be... Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before." - Erich Fromm

"Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move." - Paulo Coelho

"Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things." - Jonathan Raban

Voyage of Discovery - Sacred Quotes

"No definition conceivable by logic can apply to the nature of the true Self. No organ available with us as a faculty of knowledge can apprehend it." - Swami Krishnananda

"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering." - St Augustine

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Gautama Buddha

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." - Aristotle

"The searching out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man." - Cicero

Dharma Of A Journalist - Sacred Quotes

"Newspapers are meant for dharma. And for the purpose of protecting dharma we have to live our dharma." - Mata Amritanandamayi

"Media plays a very important role in upholding human rights." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"If you are a Buddhist journalist, you would ask: Does my story help overcome individual and social sufferring? Can a new global journalism of healing be practised that embraces timely, truthful and helpful speech, and avoids the five destructive modes?" - The McGill Report

"The smarter journalists are, the better for society..." - Warren Buffett

"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere." - Michel De Certeau

Children's Day - Sacred Quotes

"Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity. By and by, we force wrong beliefs on them. By and by, we distract them. By and by, we make them more and more economical and political and ambitious." - Osho

"Kiss your children a lot. For each kiss you will get a divine heavenly rank which would otherwise take 500 years to achieve." - Ruzatal-Vaizin

"If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children." - M K Gandhi

"The soul is healed by being with children." - English proverb

"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is not true love in this world." - Isadora Duncan

"Children are our most valuable natural resource." - Herbert Hoover

Your Thoughts - Sacred Quotes

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace..." - Gautama Buddha

"Man is a bundle of thoughts...More than heart attacks, we suffer from thought attacks." - Swami Sukhabodhananda


"The thoughts are the enemy. They amount to the creation of the universe. In their absence there is neither the world nor God the Creator." - Ramana Maharshi


"I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree." - James Douglas


"No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged." - The XIV Dalai Lama

Mystic Experience - Sacred Quotes

"I go into a strange mood while thinking of the Lotus Feet of God. he cloth on my body drops to the ground and i feel something creeping up from my feet to the top of my head. In that state i regard all as mere straw..." - Ramana Maharshi

"Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul'. When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience." - Jim Morrison

"Then felt i like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with wond'ring eyes He stared at the Pacific - and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise - Silent upon a peak in Darien." - Keats

Thus Spake Guru Nanak - Sacred Quotes

"Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limt."

"That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth."

"Even kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God."

"One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages."

"Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die."

"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."

Seeing Miracles - Sacred Quotes

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Gautama Buddha

"Meditation sometimes brings about spectacular side-effects; visions of gods may appear and occasionally supernatural powers such as clairvoyance and telepathy are developed. Both of these effects can be deliberately produced. Concentration on a mental image will sometimes result in visions, particularly if the concentration is done with devotion or if there is a strong desire for the visions to appear." - David Godman

"The smallest task, Well done, becomes a miracle of achievement." - Og Mandino

"Miracles happen every day; change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you." - Bon Jovi

Heal Yourself - Sacred Quotes

"Healing ourselves on the spiritual level involves developing a strong connection with our sourl. We heal ourselves on the mental level as we become aware of our core belief, release those that limit us, and open to more supportive ideas and greater understanding. Emotional healing takes place as we learn to accept and experience the full range of our fellings. And we heal ourselves on the physical level when we learn to honour and care for our bodies, and for the physical world around us." - Shakti Gawain

"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has." - Hippocrates

"In ancient Greece, dreams were used to provide cures for ailments through divine power. The Greeks called this practice egkoimesis, and the Romans incubatio." - Necati Alkan

What Makes You Happy - Sacred Quotes

"Happiness can be achieved by knowledge alone." - Adi Shankara

"Never link money with happiness. Even the poorest people are happy, if you see. But money can create a false notion of security in you: You think if you have money, you have everything. The idea of money is for comfort. Isn't it? Why do you want money, for comfort? But money can give you only one type of comfort, physical comfort. It doesn't give emotional and spiritual comfort." - Sri Sri Ravi Shan

"Well," said Pooh, "what i like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called." - A A Milne

"If you want to be happy, be." - Leo Tolstoy

Real And Unreal - Sacred Quotes

"Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal." - Sri Ramakrishna

"There is no 'being' only 'becoming'." - Buddhist thought

"He who sees the Self, sees only the Self in the world also. To the jnani, it is immaterial whether the world appears or not. Whether it appears or not, his attention is always on the Self." - Ramana Maharshi

"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself." - H P Blavatsky

"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal but actually it's the way things happen to you in real life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television - you don't feel anything." - Andy Warhol

Non-possession - Sacred Quotes

"One who is not greedy is secure. He has time to think deeply. His understanding of himself is complete." - Yoga Sutra II.39

"The more we have, the more we need to take care of it. The time and energy spent on acquiring more things, protecting them and worrying about them cannot be spent on the most basic questions of life. What is the limit to what we should possess? For what purpose, for whom and for how long? Death comes before we have had time to even begin considering these questions." - T K V Desikachar

"The idea of non-acquisition is sometimes expanded to prevent people being selfish with their time and their talent. As a result Jains feel that they should take part in projects that benefit the Jain community around them, or other beings." - bbc.co.uk / religion

Pure Consciousness - Sacred Quotes

"When all worlds come to an end, and all creatures sleep the sleep of oblivion, God with his Spirit is awake in eternity. From the infinite space of his supreme thought, new worlds arise and stir. The whole universe rests in the consciousness of God, and to pure consciousness it will return when God wills." - Upanishads

"Existence or consciousness is the only reality...consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go. The screen is real; the pictures are mere shadow on it." - Ramana Maharshi

"The Self is pure consciousness. Your true self is the purest of pure. It is the witness." - Anandmurti Gurumaa

"The average person only experiences three states of consciousness in an entire lifetime. These are deep sleep, dreams and waking state of consciousness." - Deepak Chopra

Beware Of Ego - Sacred Quotes

"The one who is free from all material attachments and false ego, who is enthusiastic and resolute and who is indifferent to success or failure, is in the mode of goodness." - Bhagavad Gita 18:26

"Now, I consult no more with my Ego,/ For, the Guru has warned that egoism is foolhardy,/ And that the Ego remains homeless ever; it finds no Refuge./ So I am attuned to God, being Saved by the Guru." - Adi Granth

"Let the limited ego dissolve in the Universal ego. There are three types of ego - tamasic, rajasic and sattvic. From tamasic and rajasic come to the sattvic ego. The sttvic ego automatically dissolves into Brahmn in the state of samadhi." - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"To walk the spiritual path in earnest is to come to the end of division within ourselves. The price for that kind of profound and deeply liberating simplicity is ego death." - Andrew Cohen