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Quotes by Indian Authors
"He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This business of worship, of the abnegation of self in the face of the Almighty, was a distraction, a false trail. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow, clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path."
"Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports."
"You're not to achieve anything, on the contrary you are to drop whatever you have accumulated over ages and its difficult mind you, not that its part of you, but YOU have owned this mental clutter unconsciously. The moment you unburden yourself, for the first time YOU ARE!, never before."
"Perfection exists no where, because we all live in fragments - mental, psychological, physical, spiritual. Being total is an art which takes many lives to master!"
"Magic is only magic when don't know 'how', when you know it, it can be experienced everyday!!!"
"Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the state of 'shuddh upyog' [pure awareness of pure soul]."
"The Knower of the Soul is considered Self Realized (The Enlightened one). The knower of all the eternal elements is known as Omniscient (sarvagna)."
"You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants."
"You may be good, but who cannot be better?"
"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."
"Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence."
"Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process that removes the clouds of negativity and brings the colors of peace, compassion and kindness."
"Everything man needs is in the world."
"Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience."
"Only one person can stop me or keep me going, I myself."
"Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own."
"If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth."
"Religion begins from the time man starts to give happiness to others."
"A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow."
"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."
"The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful."
"All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything."
"As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God."
"Wishing you a Thanksgiving that is as bright as the sunshine and as warm as the love that fills your heart."
"To worship means to go higher. If you join the one who has gone higher, you will go higher and if you speak ill of that person, you will fall down."
"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere."
"Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself."
"It is called as 'discharge' (karma) when one has to do it compulsorily and against his wishes."
"In this world, it is not worth finding anyone's faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults."
"When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response."
"It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head."
"I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful."
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