237 quotes found
“Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see ‘as it is’, and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God’s maya is gone, the solution is found.”
“Undecided thoughts’ is called the mind. ‘Decided thoughts’ is called the intellect.”
“. . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings!”
“To say, ‘he lacks understanding’, about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed).”
“You have a habit of having an ‘underhand’, and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world.”
“All that is ‘free of cost’ is compulsory (farajeeyat).”
“No man will love you, though you gave your life for him, unless you have a pretty face. So (might it not be?), the gods will not love you (however you try to pleasure them, and whatever you suffer)...”
“...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.”
“Of the things that followed I cannot say at all whether they were what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees...”
“I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?”
“How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
“Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?”
“It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.”
“You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own.”
“We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.”
“The person who tolerates ‘exactly’ (with understanding) hands over his ‘case’ to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him.”
“Love is a sacred reserve of energy it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.”
