237 quotes found
“When she saw a shooting star streak overhead, she asked her beloved what he wished for, and he said he only wished to sit there with her for as long as forever.”
“For him who has conquered the min, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy. SB 6.6”
“In this world, all that which is on the outside, is also within! Faults that are seen on the outside [in other people] are the very faults that lie within [our own self]. The universe (Brahmand) th...”
“To say, he lacks understanding, about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed).”
“As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.”
“To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.”
“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.”
“Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator,”
“One name by itself can't fully represent God's majesty & power.”
“Look inside, and be your own guide.”
“Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual”
“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behi...”
“And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there...”
“The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.”
“He's a hedonist at heart. All those fasts and vigils and stakes and crosses are only a faade. Or only like foam on the seashore. Out at sea, out in His sea, there is pleasure, and more pleasure. He...”
“Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own.”
“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)...”
“Even of his sins the Enemy does not want him to think too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased.”
“Now it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, He relies on the troughs even more than on the peaks; some of His special favourites have gone through lo...”
