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For infinite lives, one has been wandering around, and once in a while, he will attain a human birth. But there his back will hurt. He will have created obstacles such that he will not be able to eat, even when he is served a plate full of food. This is how it is! So think before you take any steps (before you do anything).
— Dada Bhagwan
God encounters are to occur and continue throughout the life of a believer, constantly bringing each of us into a higher level of spiritual consciousness, constantly sharpening our spiritual senses, constantly challenging our complacency and status quo mentality.
— Robin Bertram
What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (“Is heaven a place in the sky?”)
— Erik Pevernagie
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
— Rumi
The one whose ego of doer-ship in the unfolding karma effect (oodai no garva) is gone
—  he is said to have attained the Self.
Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma
—  true religion is indeed not present there. There is no merit or demerit karma in true religion. True religion is where merit and demerit karma are considered worthy of abandonment and that which is worthy of acceptance is one’s Self-form.
What has God called a religion? Renunciation is not religion. To be free of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is religion
—  or to have feeble (tamed) kashays is religion. That’s all. Only these two are religion.
Freedom from all types of pain and misery is the exact (proper) religion. It is exact (proper) religion when egoism departs and all ‘wrong beliefs’ go away. If the ‘wrong’ beliefs’ are there, true religion cannot be there.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as the egoism is there, how can one attain the true religion?
— Dada Bhagwan
Egoism itself is non-religion (adharma) and where there is no egoism that indeed is religion. Without the presence of a living Gnani, it is not possible for egoism to decrease.
— Dada Bhagwan
One who does not join in with the unfolding karmic effects (karma oodai) is a Gnani (Self-realized), and an agnani (non-Self-realized) cannot indeed refrain from joining in with the unfolding karmic effects.
— Dada Bhagwan
Unfolding of karmic effect is self-resulting (swaparinami). Therefore, whatever the unfolding karmic effect does is correct. Do not be obstinate there. The unfolding of karmic effect indeed means that it has come before you to give the result. Why not stop interfering in it?
— Dada Bhagwan
Good karmas are an illusion and bad karmas are also an illusion. Despite this, I am not telling you to stop doing good karma. Going from bad to good is a good thing. However, in spite of doing good; the illusion doesn’t go away. True religion begins after the illusion has gone away.
— Dada Bhagwan
God says that, ‘Either you tell me that you want only God, or you tell me that you want this worldly life; then I will give it to you.’ Do these people really want God? They actually want a house, they want wife and children.
— Dada Bhagwan
I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.
— James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams
The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world without sentimental artifice. Emotional detachment provides for clarity of vision.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
One whose faith (nishtha) is set in God, he is known as Brahma-nishtha (settled in the Self).
— Dada Bhagwan
When Self (Khuda) is realized, egoism (Aap-khudi) goes away.
— Dada Bhagwan
When does one think of God? It is when he gains something from Him, when love for Him arises!
— Dada Bhagwan
People have no value in looking for God. They have not delved deep into it. They have delved deep into earning money. They look at the map and wonder which port to disembark? Then they search to see if they will find a “canteen” (restaurant) or not. They search for such things. But for them God has 'no value'. Should one not search for Him?
— Dada Bhagwan
Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
When does the external work improve? It improves when inner peace is attained.
— Dada Bhagwan
When will final Liberation [Moksha] occur?! It is when your knowledge, your understanding [darshan] becomes mistake-free. You have been stuck because of these mistakes. One says, ‘I am Chandulal. I am the husband of this woman. I am this boy’s father. I am eighty years old’. So many such mistakes are there! There is a series of such mistakes!! Mistake is indeed at the root of all that!!! ‘This’ is the only misunderstanding’ there is, and that is what has obstructed liberation. And through only one understanding there is liberation.
— Dada Bhagwan
Every human being makes mistakes, so why should you be afraid? Go to the One who can get rid of the mistakes and tell him, ‘Sir, these are the kind of mistakes I make’, so he will show you the solution.
— Dada Bhagwan
Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it.
— Dada Bhagwan
If God were the doer, when will there be an end?! (If) God is the creator and he made us, we become his toys, so that is the end? When will we become liberated? No one is your superior and no one is your ‘underhand’ (subservient to you).
— Dada Bhagwan
No one in this world is your boss! Yet people walk around with a perplexed look, thinking ‘someone will take away my things!’ Hey, you are the owner of the whole universe. Who can take away what is yours?
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who never rebukes his underhand will have no boss in this world!
— Dada Bhagwan
Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.
— Gérard de Nerval, Selected Writings
What I've learned is that the past might be challenging and the future might be unsure. And that's okay. The present is all we're given, anyway. When we get to the future, God will be there. He'll supply whatever we need for each day.
— Becky Wade, True to You
Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.
— Lisa Eley, Thirteen Geese in Flight: One Black Woman's Ascent into Mental Illness
If your financial life is not in order, every other area of your life will be in disorder.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
In heaven there will be no tears, because every tear was cried when Jesus died on the cross.
— Alin Sav
Yes it´s true, God is good, but not everything that seems to be good comes automatically from God.
— Alin Sav
O MAN! Offer Thy labyrinthine longings into a monotheistic bonfire consecrated to the unparalleled God.Burn desire for human affection in the fire of aspiration for GOD alone, a love solitary because omnipresent!Throw faggot of ignorance to incandesce the blaze of insight! Devour all sorrows in the sorrow for God's absence. Consume all regrets in meditative bliss!
— Paramahamsa Yogananda, God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita
Pay attention to your life and you will see bits of 'magic' that happens precisely when you need it to happen.
— Linda Westphal
I am nothing without the One who is everything.
— Alin Sav
Enlightenment is the ability to see beyond all the things we make God to find God. We make religion God and so fail to see godliness where religion is not, though goodness is clear andconstant in the simplest of people, the remotest of places. We make national honor God and fail to see the presence of God in other nations, particularly non-Christian nations. We make personal security God and fail to see God in the bleak and barren dimensions of life. We separate spirit and matter as if they were two different things, though we know now from quantum physics that matter is simply fields of force made dense by the spirit of Energy. We are one with the universe, in other words. We are not separate from it or different from it. We are not above it. We are in it, all of us and everything, swimming in an energy thatis God. To be enlightened is to see behind the forms to the God who holds them in being.
— Maryknoll Book of Prayer, Maryknoll Missions
Jesus, Made in Heaven, assembled on earth.
— Alin Sav
When you are in God's will, you're never to late, always on time.
— Alin Sav
When heaven invades earth, it's more than a tsunami.
— Alin Sav
My Bible is my dockingstation.
— Alin Sav
We do not preach against people, we preach against sin.
— Alin Sav
When you're in God's will, even when you miss, you will hit.
— Alin Sav
Motivational quotes inspire people to change behaviour. Can you imagine how dramatically the word of God can change lives?
— Alin Sav
The body should be strong enough to obey the mind; a good servant must be strong. I know that intemperance stimulates the passions; in course of time it also destroys the body; fasting and penance often produce the same results in an opposite way. The weaker the body, the more imperious its demands; the stronger it is, the better it obeys. All sensual passions find their home in effeminate bodies; the less satisfaction they can get the keener their sting.
— Rousseau Jean-Jacques 1712-1778
Only those who spend much time in HIs presence will ever become like Him.
— Oswald J. Smith, Man God Uses
To be a Christian for ten year and to be no more like Jesus then than at the time of conversion, is a tragedy.
— Oswald J. Smith, Man God Uses
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.First, to let go of life.In the end, to take a step without feet;to regard this world as invisible,and to disregard what appears to be the self.Heart, I said, what a gift it has beento enter this circle of lovers,to see beyond seeing itself,to reach and feel within the breast.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
You cannot be named. To define is to confine.
— Sue Maisano, The Nature of Mind Realities
It is the Master who comes to the door of his student when the student is ready and the Master knows all the truth of his student
— Kapil Kumar Bhaskar, Reminiscences Of A Seeker: Dark Face Of The White World
KUNDALINI DANCEDark and cold and wet were Her handsI felt Her chilly breath inside my throatHer claws deep inside trying to find traces ofFear within meI stayed still Accepting Opening ReceivingWithin a moment She was insideTwo fingers below My belly buttonIn there She found no traces of shiversno traces of resistance, no traces of weaknessjust clear pure Passage-WayThen She grew into Her most powerful SelfShe stood undisturbed, unmoved, unchangedTotally free and She screamedAAAAAUUUUUUMMMFrom the centre of the earth, Through the tunnels of the caves, To the surface of the volcanoesAAAAUUUUUUMMMMTo open: Mountain tops untouched by clouds and rainCherry fields in their full blossomA dog running after a train filled with the excitementA witch laughing at passers-by mirroring their paranoiaDeath looking us in the eyes searching for the chosen Few Capable to see the Key behind Her magic veil
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Tree of Life
WU WEIflow of Life governed by Tao
When I am centered on love I don't need to be better than you. I don't need to be rich. I don't even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love, who I am and where I am at is enough.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
. . . nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings!
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
No one knows while experiencing their darkest hour that some day they may use that very experience to illuminate the ways for others. Nothing is ever wasted.
— Renae A.Sauter
Choosing to interpret all your experiences from a place of love will allow you to strengthen and empower yourself, while moving closer to the divine light.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Lift your spirits by practicing random acts of kindness.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swasatta) cannot arise.
— Dada Bhagwan
Right knowledge (samikit) means right vision. What does the wrong vision do? It will make one say, ‘this person caused me a loss. This person profited me. That person insulted me. That person hurt me. This person made me happy.’ There is no one out there giving you pain or pleasure! Indeed, it is all within you.
— Dada Bhagwan
Whatever the other person sees according to his view-point, you have to accept it. How can we make others accept our view-point?
— Dada Bhagwan
So what’s the point of it all?”“Seriously?” I asked. “Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?”“Well it’s a reasonable question,” you persisted.
— Andy Weir
When you shoot the arrows straight from your heart, it is bound to reach its target with a bull's eye and leave everlasting imprints ; raw and deep....
— Parna Chowdhury
Seek the temple within, the silent place you can go in the midst of it all.
— Nikki Rowe
Any person or thing of significance to you unconsciously plays a role in mirroring your own internal universe, just as you do theirs.
— Nebo D. Lukovich, Inner Peace, Outer Success: The Reintegration System: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Solving Problems and Achieving Goals with Cutting-Edge Mind Techniques
For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things
— Dada Bhagwan
Angels are attracted to humanity whenever you reach out to your Soul when you pray or meditate, when you are open to the world of Spirit and quiet your mind.
— Genevieve Gerard
Tides washed the wounds but the scars remained and continued to burn whenever a similar wind blew...
— Parna Chowdhury
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.
— Zubin Mathai, The Oarsman
I remain in a state of surrender knowing the Universe is supporting me in creating a life I love.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Compassion can be learned through example
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
In a Universe with infinite possibilities we don't have to have our hearts set on just one.
— Renae A. Sauter
When we finally become present in our lives its as if we are seeing things for the first time.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Narada Muni says - Whether you consider the human to be an eternal jivatma or a temporary body, or even if you accept an indescribable opinion that he is both eternal and temporary, you do not have to lament in any way. There is no cause for lamentation other than the affection which has arisen out of delusion. (1.13.44)
— Srimad Bhagavatam
Why are the desert blooms that spring to life after a monsoon so magnificent? The answer is – their impermanence. The lush growth and blooming flowers do not last very long here in the desert, and this new growth only happens once a year. If this growth was never-ending, we would soon take it for granted. Likewise, our human lives. What makes them so special and unique? Our fleeting impermanence.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
It's the new best way to start your day - Ram Lev on Facebook Live TOMORROW, Thursday, March 16th, at 7:30am EST."If I am not the body that was born and dies, and I am not the mind that always changes, then who am I? The One who is aware of the body, aware of the mind, and aware of the questions.
— Leonard Perlmutter, The Heart and Science of Yoga: The American Meditation Institute's Empowering Self-Care Program for a Happy, Healthy, Joyful Life
The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness.
— Nikki Rowe
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
— The Bhagavad Gita
Our connections to the Oneness of the Universe/God are both physical/atomic matter and nonphysical spiritual/energy.
— Russell Anthony Gibbs, The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
The ‘knowledge’ (gnan) that was resulting into ‘the things to be known’ (gneya)
—  when that ‘knowledge’ results in the ‘Knower’ (gnata)
Maya (deceit) means ignorance of one’s own Self!
— Dada Bhagwan
Enlightenment isn't a vast field of open opportunities that will change your life, actually it is but first it will destruct anything in its path unattached to the version of you that is awake. That's the part no one prepares for, it will break you to the core but the break will make you something greater then you ever thought imagineable.
— Nikki Rowe
If you want to receive a promotion from God in spiritual things, then become more humble
— Sunday Adelaja
Serving humanity is not beneath spiritual pursuit
— Sunday Adelaja
It is considered as conduct when it comes into exact understanding.
— Dada Bhagwan
People remain glued in worldly interactions and that is their mistake. It is because they have become glued, they have to suffer the beating from the world.
— Dada Bhagwan
The puzzle that is created by seeing the ‘relative’ is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the ‘Real’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Prayer is the best way to face any problem, to crush every fear and to release every pain
— Maryum Ahsam
I used to see dolphins as cute, Smart and funny sea animals. I know now that they're astute, Divine beings, clever mammals.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
A country can be reformed only through a spiritual restoration
— Sunday Adelaja
For every physical realm, there is a spiritual realm
— Sunday Adelaja
It tales two to Tao.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
Until the ‘wrong belief’ leaves, we will continue to be robbed.
— Dada Bhagwan
When I was a child, I saw God,I saw angels;I watched the mysteries of higher and lower worlds. I thought all men saw the same. At last I realized that they did not see.....
— Shams Of Tabriz
Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him
— Sunday Adelaja
To live in a spiritual dimension is to be connected to one’s eternal destiny
— Sunday Adelaja
To be devoid of life is to lack spiritual dimension that brings heaven to earth
— Sunday Adelaja
There are superior, spiritual laws inherent in human nature
— Sunday Adelaja
To function in the original intention is to adhere to spiritual principles
— Sunday Adelaja
Those who understand spiritual reality make a mark
— Sunday Adelaja
Your choice can either violate a spiritual principle of love or walk in it
— Sunday Adelaja
Spiritual Requirement Needed To Function Has Been Revealed
— Sunday Adelaja
The principles of spiritual kingdom has been packaged in the written word of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Our psychological and spiritual vigilance is very important during a time of persecution
— Sunday Adelaja
When human knowledge could create mass ignorance in the physical plane of existence, those righteous souls who have earned the wisdom either in their evolving and upgrading process of cosmic consciousness or who have dwelled in the truth consciousness, are the last hope for the mankind on earth to eradicate the mass ignorance”.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
There is only supreme bliss in the Soul, our True Self. But this bliss is obstructed because of impure inner intents.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one departs from the bliss of the Eternal, he will come across the happiness that is obtained from the temporary.
— Dada Bhagwan
Why should one ever get pain? One is the Absolute Supreme Self (parmatma), how can one have any pain? It is the egoism that causes pain and it is also the egoism that suffers the pain! The absolute Supreme Self doesn’t have any suffering!
— Dada Bhagwan
God is the Knower and not the sufferer of pain.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you give pain to someone out there, you will start to feel the pain within you! Such is the science of the Vitraags [the enlightened ones]. If you take everyone’s pain for one lifetime, it will make up for losses of infinite lifetimes!
— Dada Bhagwan
One, who has passed through one pain, gets the strength to pass through many pains. Then he becomes the expert in passing through the pains.
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation].
— Dada Bhagwan
The mind’s nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say ‘Why did you come at this wrong time?’ And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.
— Dada Bhagwan
The Agna, liberating instructions of the 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], purifies the mind. Knowledge of the Self [self realization] will give the mind, solutions in every circumstance.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one discloses everything in speech he ‘designs’ in his mind, he will attain Moksha [liberation] sooner. The mind is so restless that it will create whatever design it wants and ruin countless [future] lives.
— Dada Bhagwan
This whole world is functioning on the foundation of [karmic] ‘effect’. God has no hand in this. People did not understand this and that is why they put this on God’s head (blamed God).
— Dada Bhagwan
If the ‘effect’ is experienced, [karmic] bondage is created. If one experiences the ‘effects’ alone by himself, the [karmic] bondage will not be sticky. If he involves another person in it, the karmic bondage will be sticky.
— Dada Bhagwan
Right understanding is that which finds happiness in the state of unhappiness.
— Dada Bhagwan
By doing actions, one will not attain Liberation [Moksha]; through understanding leads one to Liberation. The fruit (effect) of action is the worldly life [sansaar].
— Dada Bhagwan
The owner of actions [doer] is called a worldly person [sansaari].
— Dada Bhagwan
Those who are in vyavahar (worldly interactions), and who are indeed conducting themselves in the vyavahar; are known as worldly people [sansaari]. And ‘Siddha’ (absolutely enlightened Ones without a body) are not in the worldly conduct whatsoever. Therefore, they are known as the ‘non-worldly’ people [asansaari]! Then there are those who are in the worldly life and yet whose conduct is not in the worldly life at all; such ‘Gnani Purush (the enlightened ones)’ are called, ‘non-worldly’ (asansaari).
— Dada Bhagwan
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) that is on the outside is also within. When matters are settled with everyone on the outside, everything within will get settled. Thereafter none within will have complaints.
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is anger-pride-deceit-greed [kashay], there is fire, and as long as there is fire, there will be scorching pain of the furnace.
— Dada Bhagwan
To say, ‘he lacks understanding’, about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed).
— Dada Bhagwan
The whole world dislikes kashays (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed) and yet, all the kashays of the world are done willfully. One doesn’t like to be angry and yet he claims anger is necessary.
— Dada Bhagwan
One is called a saiyami [those with inner control] when no intent of transgression remains within him. Even during anger-pride-deceit-greed when there is no violent intent
—  that is called saiyam. A saiyami will go to moksha.
The one who can see all the viewpoints of the world is a savior (tarantaranhaar – one who has attained liberation and graces others with the same).
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws.
— Dada Bhagwan
One who keeps an 'open mind' will be able to see God!
— Dada Bhagwan
Our people believe in God, don’t they? And they also do secretive acts, don’t they? How can you keep a secret from God [the absolute supreme self within us] that knows all your actions? If you want to realize God, then you cannot do secret acts.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the science of Vitraag (the enlightened ones free of attachment)? [It is that where] If one understands a single word of the Vitarag, there will be no pain. But one has not understood a single word of ‘Vir’, the Vitaraag Lord Mahavir [The 24th Tirthankar]
— Dada Bhagwan
When there is no overt [outward] or subtle inner restlessness, it is indeed the state of internal peace. If the chit (inner component of knowledge and vision) concentrates on the external, inner peace breaks down. It is because of the external focus that this world has arisen.
— Dada Bhagwan
As the Self [Pure Soul], one never dies; it is only the beliefs that die.
— Dada Bhagwan
The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality.
— Dada Bhagwan
True intellect is that which resolves issues. All else is excess intellect
—  it causes harm.
The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self.
— Dada Bhagwan
The buddhi [intellect] is today’s gain, it is today’s experience! Whereas, akkal [insight, wisdom] is a nature’s gift!
— Dada Bhagwan
That which gives detailed analysis of anger-pride-deceit-greed and puts them aside and doesn’t allow any clashes to occur at home, is known as intellect. It makes one do ‘everywhere adjustment’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is use of the buddhi [intellect], there is no Moksha [Liberation], and where there is Moksha, there the intellect is not needed. Samaj [Understanding] is needed.
— Dada Bhagwan
There are two ways by which one will realize the life’s goal. If we have not met a Gnani Purush, then we should live life in such a way, that we hurt no one. Our highest goal should be to not hurt any living being in the slightest. The other way is if you encounter the Gnani Purush, then you should remain in the Gnani’s satsang. In doing so, all your work will be accomplished. All the 'puzzles' will be solved.
— Dada Bhagwan
To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life means something superficial. When people speak during their interactions, they put a ‘full stop’ there, but no, there should be a ‘comma’ there. People have put a full stop there. ‘I am Chandubhai’ - there should be a comma there and ‘I am Pure Soul’ – there should be a full stop there.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is ‘Gnan’, (true) Knowledge.
— Dada Bhagwan
No one has been successful in this ‘race course’. One simply dies of exhaustion from running. ‘We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) never take part in this race. ‘We’ would simply tell, ‘Dear Man, I am not capable.
— Dada Bhagwan
This is Akram Vignan [Akram Science - the stepless spiritual science of direct realization of the Self]. Once you pull out from the racecourse [competitive worldly life], your 'personality' will shine then. Those in the racecourse will never have personality; not a single person.
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who blesses the winner, after having lost himself, will attain liberation (moksha); he will become “complete”.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you try to win, you bind (create) enmity, and if you acknowledge defeat, you will be freed from enmity.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you say that you have accepted defeat, the world will let you go. ‘We’ have discovered this. Because, we had tried to win over the world and in doing so, we had to go through many incarnations. And in the end, I said that I have acknowledged defeat and settled down.
— Dada Bhagwan
If only one word of the ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is understood, then your welfare [that which liberates] is done.
— Dada Bhagwan
No one in this world is in a position to interfere with you. Therefore, do not find fault with the world; the fault is only yours. These are the echoes of interferences that you had caused. Had you not interfered, there would be no echoes that would hit you.
— Dada Bhagwan
The whole world can be explained in just one sentence. ‘What is being discharged (visarjan) is old and what is being charged (sarjan) is new’. If someone is discharging bad behavior but at the same time, has learned from the ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one]; he would be charging a higher life form!
— Dada Bhagwan
Charging [creation of new karma] is under ‘your’ control and discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature’s control. Therefore, if you want to charge, charge positively. Whatever you have charged, nature will not refrain from discharging.
— Dada Bhagwan
Discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature’s hands. That’s why there is restlessness. That is why these are the pains of dependency [association]. There are such times man has to face that it becomes difficult for him to pass even one hour.
— Dada Bhagwan
Humans in this world live based on two things: one is on the basis of the Self and the other is on the basis of the egoism.
— Dada Bhagwan
This world stands on the foundation of the relationship between the support and the support-taker. If the support is removed, the support-taker will be released.
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life has arisen through the ego. One is indeed free if the ego dissolves. What is the foundation on which the ego stands? It is the ignorance of the Self.
— Dada Bhagwan
This whole world is running solely on the foundation of ‘wrong belief’. Why is there suffering in the world? It is because one has acquired the ‘wrong belief’. With the ‘right belief’, there is no suffering at all.
— Dada Bhagwan
When the ‘right belief’ occurs, the world will appear quite different. ‘Right belief’ will take one towards the Eternal (Self), and the ‘wrong belief’ will take one towards the worldly life.
— Dada Bhagwan
The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion).
— Dada Bhagwan
To attain the Self is indeed called the right belief (samkit).
— Dada Bhagwan
Right knowledge (samkit) means right vision. What does the wrong vision do? It will make one say, ‘this person caused me a loss. This person profited me. That person insulted me. That person hurt me. This person made me happy.’ There is no one out there giving you pain or pleasure! Indeed, it is all within you.
— Dada Bhagwan
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.
— Dada Bhagwan
The Gnani Purush simply makes the separation in one’s vision: ‘This is the vision of the Soul, the real Self’ and ‘this is the vision of the worldly self’. Otherwise a person can never make this change in his vision. One’s vision of ‘I am Chandubhai’ (vikalpi drashti) will never become the vision of ‘I am the Pure Soul’ (nirvikalpi drashti).
— Dada Bhagwan
When ‘my’ and ‘I’ are gone, it is known as a state free of wrong beliefs (nirvikalp)!
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the benefit of egoism? It is only through the benefit of egoism that people get their daughters married, get their sons married, walk around as a father and say ‘mine, mine’! The entire world is enjoying the benefit of egoism. The Gnanis (Self-realized) enjoy the benefit of the Self.
— Dada Bhagwan
Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form.
— Dada Bhagwan
To imagine the Self where it is not, is called maya (deceit).
— Dada Bhagwan
What do the Vitraag Lords say? “I am Chandulal” is a Gneya (that which is to be known) yet one believes himself to be the knower. When the knower comes into the ‘Knowing state (gnata padh) and that which is to be known, comes into the ‘state of being known (gneya padh)’, ‘we’ will call him ‘Jitendriya-Jin’.
— Dada Bhagwan
The path people know, is not the path of liberation. It is the path of the worldly life. The path of liberation is not one of imagination. It is a pure path. Where there are no worries, no externally created problems. There is bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst all external problems.
— Dada Bhagwan
The Lord states, ‘What can one do to go to moksha? He can go if he attains the right belief of the Self; or if he attains the grace of the Gnani Purush’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Whatever one does without the right belief (samkit - Self-realization) will lead to karmic bondage. Even when he gives to charity or shows kindness
—  it is all karma bondage.
When egoism ends, that indeed is called the Absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). Egoism indeed is the illusion.
— Dada Bhagwan
If a man keeps on talking negatively and we scold him, what is that tantamount to? It is like kicking the door of a latrine because it smells bad; will kicking it make it smell good?
— Dada Bhagwan
To care for others is called humanity.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is ‘relative’. And “All these relatives are temporary adjustments”.
— Dada Bhagwan
The Gnani Purush [The enlightened one] always remains untouched in his worldly interactions. Everything will get resolved for us if we go to Him. He shows us what is ‘correct’ and what is ‘incorrect’.
— Dada Bhagwan
When everyone in the family is united, when they resolve their issues with each other and unite; it is called vitarag bhav, attachment-free intent. And to disunite is to have raag-dwesh, attachment-abhorrence remain.
— Dada Bhagwan
To say ‘I’ where I’ is not - is the greatest illusory attachment (raag).
— Dada Bhagwan
If attachment becomes fixed on a 'Gnani' [The enlightened one], then it becomes Real attachment (prashastaraag). It will get one’s work done. It will uproot attachment in all other places. Because the Gnani is Vitarag, attachment-free. Attachment for a Vitarag gives liberation from all the suffering.
— Dada Bhagwan
The kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit and greed) that keep one entrenched in the coolness of the worldly life are the very thing that makes one wander life after life.
— Dada Bhagwan
All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as there is greed (desire) for even a single situation, one will have to come back into the world and wandering will continue until then.
— Dada Bhagwan
Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.
— Dada Bhagwan
The one whose kashays, (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) are gone is worthy of worship. The absence of inner intent of kashays is indeed Gnani!
— Dada Bhagwan
Wherever there is kashay, there is no religion of the Vitarag at all. God does not want one to renounce anything. One needs to become free from kashays. Kashay-free state is considered the religion of moksha, while renouncing is considered religion of the world.
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is kashay, they are all considered heaps of parigraha (worldly possessiveness); whether one is living in the Himalayas or in a cave. Where there is absence of kashays, there is absence of possessiveness; even if one is then living in a palace!
— Dada Bhagwan
There should be no restlessness within, no matter what the circumstances. If there is restlessness within, know that the kashays have not left yet.
— Dada Bhagwan
Wrong belief is what bites one from the inside. There is no one biting him on the outside.
— Dada Bhagwan
Who are you without your labels and attachments to the issues you are passionate about? Remove the emotions, remove the beliefs and associations, and simply focus on the rational and practical applications that promote peaceful progression.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery.
— Dada Bhagwan
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.
— Dada Bhagwan
One will have to know the Self. Unless Self is known, God [Allah] cannot be attained. The power of Self should be attained. The power of Self is an abode of infinite bliss. There is no unhappiness there at all. This happiness is there even if someone insults you!
— Dada Bhagwan
Bhagwan’ (God, Self) and ‘Paramatma’ (Supreme or absolute Self); these two words are spoken. Muslims speak the two words-‘Khuda’ (God, Self) and ‘Allah’ (Supreme spirit, Absolute Self). Allah is used for Paramatma and Khuda is used for Bhagwan.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the one going to Moksha (attaining Liberation) like? He is someone who enjoys only the bliss of the ‘Self’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise.
— Dada Bhagwan
When they say that, ‘God takes avatar (reincarnates)’ is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels ‘I did it’!
— Dada Bhagwan
Religion is that which becomes the religion and gives results. When can we say it is this way? It is when it helps when someone insults you. It will not let you be affected by it.
— Dada Bhagwan
Is it wrong worldly interaction (avyavahar) when someone insults you? It is (correct) worldly interaction (vyavahar). Gnani (Self-realized person) will be pleased that he has become free from karma bondage, when someone insults Him; while a non Self-realized person will fight back.
— Dada Bhagwan
Not doing attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) while experiencing the unfolding of karma is religion.
— Dada Bhagwan
Everyone’s unfolding karma will change. To maintain equanimity during the unfolding of karmic effect is the Gnanis’ (Self-realized person’s) duty.
— Dada Bhagwan
Egoism does not have eyes of its own. Some days, it sees through the eyes of the intellect (buddhi). However, what will happen if you befriend a blind man?
— Dada Bhagwan
Light and flow is what shifts the world’s vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Children born of Spirit have one Spiritual Father.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am satisfied with spirituality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is infinite energy within you. Whatever you think within, that very same thing will happen on the outside! However, here one chases his thoughts and works hard for things and yet nothing happens on the outside, people have incurred so much loss! Kaliyug (the time-cycle with lack of unison of mind, speech and body) is upon us!
— Dada Bhagwan
The spiritual force overcomes all other forces.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Tragedy of life: we want to possess more material wealth, but fail to enjoy the spiritual riches.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be aware of the type of humor you use in your daily life. Just because people are laughing doesn’t mean it is creating positive vibes.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
God has said not to create any accounts (karmic). Create accounts (only) if you have the knowledge of the future. Hey! If you want to start an account, then why don’t you account for the possibility that you may die tomorrow?
— Dada Bhagwan
In reality, those who cheat are indeed the ones who get cheated. Those who are cheated will gain experience and develop (spiritually) in the process. Only money earned dishonestly will be taken away (by nature) from one; rightfully earned money will be put to good use!
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who knowingly gets cheated is entitled to liberation!
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle.
— Dada Bhagwan
To be "great" is an ego goal; to be real is existential.
— Osho, The Journey of Being Human: Is It Possible to Find Real Happiness in Ordinary Life?
You’re in love with your image of Linda. Mr. Green is in love with his image of Jesus. Both of your images have little to do with reality. Both of you are making yourselves miserable.’'That’s not fair, comparing me to him. You don’t see me hammering nails in people.’'You prefer to hammer them through your own hands.
— Christopher Pike, Sati
Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator,
— Tony Evans, The Power of God's Names
One name by itself can't fully represent God's majesty & power.
— Tony Evans, The Power of God's Names
Humans assign gender to God, so the first question to ask ourselves is who decided God was male? The second question is why?
— Peter  Wilkes
Annie's message is timeless, her shining spirit and healing gift from the Spiritual Universe will capture your heart. She was born with birth defects in a time when special children and their mothers were put to death or banished. But have things changed really that much? Have they changed enough? "No!" Bullying, abuse, ridicule, and inequality thrives in the lives of women and children in our global modern society, just as surely as it did in the mid-1600s Colonial America. Based on factual research.
— Deborah A.Bowman
We not only don’t have fun with what we are supposed to enjoy,but whatever we don’t enjoy has started having fun with us.
— Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him
As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you.
— Christopher Pike, Strange Girl
Everyone belongs to God. Rather black or white there is no colour for God. He loves all.
— Saira Hafeez
A living together becomes a living apart, when the pineal gland has not been able to create a luster of spiritual togetherness and emotional attachment. (“I wonder what went wrong.” )
— Erik Pevernagie
You wake up oneday and it's different, not so much in a physical way but in the way you look at things. I think when you reach that primary moment in your life, you finally have the courage to let go of the human attachments and start to live in a way that compliments your heart and soul.
— Nikki Rowe
Each of us at our root is consciousness, and in the highest of the spiritual realms life and form become light. I experienced this in an OBE in which I went to the outer ring of the source of creation.
— Belsebuub, The Astral Codex: Out-of-Body Experiences and Lucid Dreaming for Spiritual Knowledge
Actions reveal… If you have to TELL me you’re honest, caring, generous, spiritual, kind, loving, and a good person... you’re doing it wrong.
— Steve Maraboli
Look inside, and be your own guide.
— Ayush Yadav
Peace of mind always precipitates peace on earth.
— Phoenix, Revelations - Your Role In God's Plan To Replace Darkness with Light
What is the own self of God? Where is the existence of God? He is within a human body. If any man achieves the Godhood, then his form will be manifested within others and transform them into his own form in the spiritual world. And that transformation does not occur after death
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
In order to create light you must first live in light.
— Phoenix, Forgiveness: The Process of Creation that Replaces Darkness with Light
We create our own reality through our thoughts, emotions and beliefs.
— Sharon Gardner, Holidays in Poem for the Heart of a Child
The prophecy, "The Revelation of Christ" is about mankind's journey into a darker reality and then our quest to create a light based reality. We can only create a light based reality when we have re-created our collective spirit to make it strong enough to hold light.
— Phoenix, The Book of One: How to Unify Your Body, Spirit and Soul
The universe knows.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of Self.
— Brad Pitt
The door is always open for you. You just need to open your mind and walk into the heaven of love.
— Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
When you fondle meWith your feathery hands,Then…! I feelThe cabal’s of fireflyCreep into my soul
— Rehmat Changaizi
St. John the Solitary: “Be attentive to the thoughts of the mind. If some evil thought passes through you, do not get upset, for it is not the transient thoughts of your mind that the knowledge of the Lord of all observes, rather He looks at the depths of the mind to see if you take pleasure in that evil thought which resides there; for hateful thoughts float over the surface of the mind, but it is the senses that are lower down which can chase away hateful thoughts, which the Lord of all examines. He does not judge what just passes over the mind, but rather the thoughts that are lower down than those hateful ones, namely those which appear in the depths of the mind, which can drive them away with its hidden hand. For He does not pardon the thoughts which spring up from the depth of the mind, for it is they which should be chasing away those which pass over the surface of the mind; He judges those thoughts which have a passage into the heart.
— st. john the solitary
we can look underneath a rock or we can gaze upward into the skywe may choose to hear the whisper, or only turn to feel the warmth of a breathall to grasp the moment a message is passing bye, knowing all the time that we are not alone by chance...
— levi paul taylor
Spiritual learners too slowly graduate like students of normal education. If you are mentally elevated, you can grasp and appreciate complex teachings.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you.
— Adam Oakley
Gender imbalance is, at its root, a collective spiritual crisis.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
The atmosphere sets the tone for what is to take place in that space at that time. Your attitude impacts the atmosphere. How is your current attitude affecting the atmosphere and your desired outcome?
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
From her very flesh and blood and from the constant cycles of filling and emptying the red vase in her belly, a woman understands physically, emotionally, and spiritually that zeniths fade and expire, and what is left is reborn in unexpected ways and by inspired means, only to fall back to nothing, and yet be reconceived again in full glory.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator.
— Rajasaraswathii
Cease distracting your mind of things with little substance.
— Nikki Rowe