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Quotes by Indian Authors
"Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information."
"Until now psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification while studying subjects, but believe me I'm coining a new term: VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION, which will become a new form of craving in near future. Watch On!"
"The longing for peace has essentially come from troubled minds, minds that are torturing themselves. For them, peace is a big commodity that they have to seek. If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace? Would you seek the exuberance of life or would you seek peace? Only if you have become an expert in self-torture, peace seems to be the greatest thing."
"Let this Dussehra bring prosperity, success, and happiness into your life as you overcome every obstacle that comes your way!"
"When Self (Khuda) is realized, egoism (Aap-khudi) goes away."
"The irony of life is we always compare our fantasies with reality, rather than accepting the reality as is and transforming it into a paradise...."
"Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory."
"So, as you do the practice, if you are connected with your consciousness, then the mind is just free. It is so free that everything that you have smelled, tasted, touched, heard and seen is all there. You don't have to try to remember anything; it is all simply there. You can just pull it back. Memory is not about remembering, memory is just about your ability to bring back the data, isn't it?"
"Advice should only be given when it is sought, otherwise our own worthiness gets assessed."
"Easter is a reminder of the power of faith and love. May you be filled with both, and may they lead you to new hope and joy."
"Celebrate Easter with gratitude in your heart and joy in your soul. May the Lord's love guide you today and forever."
"The worldly life means a market place of sensual pleasures. Worldly life means false (temporary) happiness all the time. And moksha (liberation) means permanent happiness all the time."
"Have faith in 'What Is'. You will get your due, good or not so good, to your liking or not, but in time, as it is meant to be."
"Not to be able to find one's 'own' faults, this is called the world."
"Anger-pride-deceit-greed; they are the ones giving you pain and only they are your enemies. There is no other enemy out there. There is only a nimit (evidentiary doer) outside. Wrong vision makes you accuse the nimit. When you attain the right belief (samkit), know that you have found the solution."
"People who want to acquired powers over somebody else, for them imagination is a powerful tool. If you are seeking liberation, if you want to become free, the first thing that you must become free from is your imagination, because that is the deepest trap. Your memory and your imagination are the two traps. Do you see? One of your legs is stuck in memory; another leg is stuck in imagination. If you release yourself from these, meditation is just natural. When you sit for meditation, what is your basic problem? You are either thinking about tomorrow or thinking about what happened yesterday, isn't it? If you are free from memory and imagination, you will always be meditative."
"Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay."
"So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog."
"You are my one and only, and I wouldn't want to spend my life with anyone else. Happy Valentine's Day!"
"The moment I met you, I knew my life was forever changed. I love you more each day."
"When we say "transformation," it means that nothing of the old has remained. Something totally new has flowered within you. Now you look at a rose plant that is full of thorns. Springtime came and rose flowers burst out - it is a transformation. The thorns are still there - there are more thorns than flowers - but we do not call it a thorn plant. We call it a rose plant because of that single rose. Everyone's attention goes more towards that single rose than a hundred thorns that are on the plant, isn't it? So all the thorns in you, maybe you cannot remove them right now, but if one rose flower blossoms, everyone is willing to overlook those things."
"No one asks about the truth and non-truth. Should one not think 'why don't others accept it even when I am right?' It is because there is insistence and nagging behind that truth."
"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."
"Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion."
"Freedom is our inheritance, and together we will safeguard it forever. Happy Independence Day!"
"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights."
"Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present."
"There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment."
"What is the nature of the Self (Soul)? To 'see' the dharma (function) of everything, to see 'who is performing what function, and how that function is being performed.' To 'see' it, is called the function of the Self (Soul)."
"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
"All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."
"You are my forever Valentine, and I am beyond blessed to share this life with you. Happy Valentine's Day!"
"All these objections are raised by people, has God raised them? He who wants to be free (attain Liberation) has no objections, and he who wants to be bound, he will have nothing but objections. People become addicts of objections."
"And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can."
"Wishing you a new year that's as fresh as a blank canvas, full of exciting possibilities and the chance to create beautiful memories!"
"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."
"If you love a flower, don't pick it. Love is about appreciation, not possession."
"With the start of a new year, may you be blessed with health, prosperity, and endless happiness. May every step you take lead you to success and fulfillment."
"If only one word of the 'Gnani Purush' [the enlightened one] is understood, then your welfare [that which liberates] is done."
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