User:TheMandarin/Quotes

I will compare truth to a corrosive substance of infinite power. It burns its way in wherever it falls — in soft substance at once, hard granite slowly, but it must. — Vivekananda

…For the work of the Lord does not wait for the like of you or me. He can raise His workers from the dust by hundreds and by thousands. It is a glory and a privilege that we are allowed to work at all under Him. — Vivekananda

The vulture soars high up in the air, but all the while he is looking down into the charnel-pits in search of putrid carcasses. So the book-read pandits speak glibly and volubly about Divine Knowledge, but it is all mere talk, for all the while their mind is thinking about how to get money, respect, honour, power, the vain guerdon of their learning. — Ramakrishna

You find yourself in this transient, joyless world.

Turn from it, and take your delight in me.

Fill your heart and mind with me, adore me,

make all your acts an offering to me,

bow down to me in self-surrender.

If you set your heart upon me thus, and

take me for your ideal above all others,

you will come into my Being. &mdash; Bhagavad Gita Chapter 9

I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are no problems today, and there never will be any problems. Problems just mean the world isn't turning the way you want it to. But in truth, there are no problems. Everything is unfolding as it should. Everything is right. You have to forget about yourself and expand your consciousness until you become the whole universe. The Reality in back of the universe is Pure Awareness. It has no problems. And you are That.

&mdash; Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart

Your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle, quiet spirit, is of great worth in God's eyes. - Bible

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa