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The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into the hall was open at our backs, and a panel of light from the lamps within was cast out to the terrace. Wandering moths, invisible in the darkness, suddenly became manifest as they fluttered into this illumination, and vanished again as they passed out of it. One moment they were there, living things with life and motion of their own, the next they quite disappeared. How inexplicable that would be, I thought, if one did not know from long familiarity, that light of the appropriate sort and strength is needed to make material objects visible.Philip must have been following precisely the same train of thought, for his voice broke in, carrying it a little further.'Look at that moth,' he said, 'and even while you look it has gone like a ghost, even as like a ghost it appeared. Light made it visible. And there are other sorts of light, interior psychical light which similarly makes visible the beings which people the darkness of our blindness.' ("Expiation")
— E.F. Benson, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead, is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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— Omid Mankoo
And your own heart generates enough pressure as it pumps blood throughout your body that it could squirt blood up to 30 feet. (I’ve never tried this, and I don’t recommend it.)
— Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Each day makes the difference !
— Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light
I refuse to put God into a little box I can handle, for that would insult us both.
— L.M. Fields
Before you are beginning your first step, let's pray first.
— Marya Sy
We are not living in the land of the living and going to the land of the dying, but rather, we are living in the land of the dying and going to the land of the living.
— William Zemba
First conscious thoughts to wake,first guided steps to take. What walk of path not known..... of many moments already born?
— L.G.  Space
Then, O King! the God, so saying,Stood, to Pritha's Son displayingAll the splendour, wonder, dreadOf His vast Almighty-head.Out of countless eyes beholding,Out of countless mouths commanding,Countless mystic forms enfoldingIn one Form: supremely standingCountless radiant glories wearing,Countless heavenly weapons bearing,Crowned with garlands of star-clusters,Robed in garb of woven lustres,Breathing from His perfect PresenceBreaths of every subtle essenceOf all heavenly odours; sheddingBlinding brilliance; overspreading-Boundless, beautiful- all spacesWith His all-regarding faces;So He showed! If there should riseSuddenly within the skiesSunburst of a thousand sunsFlooding earth with beams undeemed-of,Then might be that Holy One'sMajesty and radiance dreamed of!
— Edwin Arnold, The Bhagavad Gita
He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.
— Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
*You are not yet in the Emerald Dream. First, you must remove your earthly shell...* the voice in his head instructed. *As you reach the state of sleep, you will slip your body off as you would a coat. Start from your heart and mind, for they are the links that most bind you to the mortal plane. See? This is how it is done...* - Chapter 4
— Richard A. Knaak, The Well of Eternity
my godis not as unreachable asthey'd like you to thinkmy god is beating inside us infinitely
— Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
The NOW is such a magical moment that you have the time to live a magical life and have no time to have guilt of the past, worry of the future but to live now fully and unfold our magnificence with the help of Allah
— Muhaya Haji Mohamad
There rolls the deep where grew the treeO earth, what changes hast thou seen!There where the long street roars hath been.The stillness of the central sea.
— Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
Never forget those who helped you along the way
— Heather Richardson Hayton
It's Time2Know, Time2Understand!
— Daniel Samson, FINAL REVELATION. IT'S TIME! The Truth Of Why We Exist In This World And Why It's All Coming To An End
Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
— Esther de Wall
Take all those things that would propose to be important, and weigh them upon the scale of your soul. Asking how much each thing actually impacts, not just the moment, but the years ahead. Discard all that is trivial masquerading as significant, and reserve your days for those things that truly matter.
— L.M. Browning, Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations
The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfalls of produce from the earth such as baskets of fruit or vegetables given to you unexpectedly, nature handcrafts, or a bunch of flowers picked from a beloved garden. These are all signs that the gifts not only came from the giver but from Mother Earth herself. - Fairy of the woods
— Sarah Rajkotwala, The Year of Talking to Plants: The Plants and Fairies Talk in Their Own Words
The pace of this modern age is not conducive to maintaining one’s consciousness. Glued to our electronics, we are blind and deaf to the world around us. Run down by our long work days, we are too exhausted to think and too hurried to feel. The day ends in a haze of strained thoughts, numbness, and fatigue. And we rise the next morning only to start the cycle again. In this age of distraction, if you desire to fritter away your life with empty diversions, there is an abundance of gadgets available to aid you. Quietness is a characteristic of ages gone by. Our generation is the one it died with. Connected to the virtual world, we ignore the presence of those in our home. One can only hope we will awaken to the need for balance before we look up from the screen to find our loved ones have gone, and our life has passed us by.
— L.M. Browning
Your body is temple of the holy spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human happiness. That they can never know and therefore they grudge it to men. Nothing makes them so evil and cruel as that men should presume to be happy and forget them for the sake of their earthly happiness.
— Pär Lagerkvist, The Sibyl
Explore many facets of the written word.
— Kamla K Kapur
To be a pioneer of your own life, living an existence that has purpose and meaning you must first remove the past baggage that takes up space in all of your body, home and surroundings. Clean out the core soul clutter of built up three dimensional pathways to allow yourself the energy to overcome, heal and outgrow what no longer is. We are taught that our realities are a reflection of our thoughts and emotions and that we can alter anything with the law of attraction and i couldn't disagree more. Its so much deeper than that, it'd be insanity if it were that simple. Thoughts are powerful, i believe that much but without practical steps, vision and risks towards something that sets your soul on fire; changes and adverse situations to try distract you from your truth; words are just words and the meaning we give them can vary from person to person. We attract what we give focus to, we collide with the energy we hold within ourselves, we are constant mirrors of a bio product of the enviroment in which we have not only created but accepted or tolerated, regardless of what we percieve our circumstances to be. When you can sit with that truth and hold yourself accountable for your part in the unfolding of your journey you will come to a realization of self that will guide you all the way home. Becoming a pioneer is mastering self in few aspects within the human conciousness, be the change, let the way you live be your story.
— Nikki Rowe
-That's when I realized that Heaven doesn't exist in another place, and neither does Hell. It's all here on Earth. We live them both right here with one another. It's just sometimes we have to go through Hell to get to Heaven. - Eoghan (The Last Princess - page 255)
— Galaxy Craze, The Last Princess
We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away
—  a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.
Do not defile your body. It is a temple for the Holy spirit to dwell.
— Lailah Gifty, Akita
The true servant makes no difference between a small piece of work and a so-called big piece of work, for all works is the Lord's. It is the egoist who makes such difference for his own glorification.
— SWAMI SHARNANAND JI, ASCENT TRICONFLUENT
It is better for you to read the Holy Bible, for your own enlightenment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.
— John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
Spread the light of love in the spirit of purity of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When your spiritual capacity becomes stagnant, the oil stops flowing
— Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success
The more we try to control the things outside of us the more we lose control of our mind.
— Jennifer White
The resurrection was not the reversal of a defeat but the manifestation of a victory.
— Bishop Lesslie Newbigin
Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural world.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I used to think that if I could talk to the spirit world, I'd get some answers. Ha bloody ha. I wish the dead would just come out and say what they mean instead of being so passive-aggressive about the whole thing.
— Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
I can't talk, or I will throw up!
— William Shakespeare
The more we accept the holy gospel of Christ Jesus , the more we know God's grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
That girl's got" the vision "----a heart that sees some peoples hearts are blind and stumble in the darkness some peoples hearts shine with light and can see and help those who stumbleThe purer the heart the greater the lightthe better the vision﻿
— Mikail Niamy
The spirit of life, the spirit of peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every situation is a spiritual journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every endured a hardship is a discipline in the spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Daily reading of scriptures is essential for your spiritual growth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The only journey is within your spiritual self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I will use my special sight! I will quiet myself right here and now and I will get the answer on what to do to and create my own way out of here!” Arthur, See the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure
— Chris DiSano Davenport, See the Little People...An Enchanting Adventure
Throw everything away, forget about it all! You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying too hard . . . relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river’s flow.
— Mooji
Prayer is a powerful force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Real men are advocates for women's rights.
— Basia Christ
Three deep cravings of the self, three great expressions of man's restlessness, which only mystic truth can fully satisfy. The first is the craving which makes him a pilgrim and a wanderer. It is the longing to go out from his normal world in search of a lost home, a 'better country'; an Eldorado, a Sarras, a Heavenly Syon. The next is the craving of heart for heart, of the Soul for its perfect mate, which makes him a lover. The third is the craving for inward purity and perfection, which makes him an ascetic, and in the last resort a saint.
— Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
The best self is a beautiful spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In order to gain gender equality, women and men must work together, equally, to teach our daughters and sons to embrace our differences, respect each others' opinions, and remove stereotypes to what a girl or boy should aspire.
— Basia Christ
True love is deep spiritual affection.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Deep spiritual affection is divinity of two souls but oneness in spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Holy Scriptures are spiritual truths.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is spiritual voyage.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world].
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is no ‘superior’, no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vitaraag Lords [the enlightened ones] that I would like to have.
— Dada Bhagwan
Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as there is worldly life, one is going to attain physical body, and as long as there is a body, there will be worldly miseries and troubles.
— Dada Bhagwan
For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the nature of the worldly life (sansar)? God lives in every living being of the world, that means if you oppress any living being or cause misery to them, then adharma (unrighteousness, irreligion) will occur. The result (effect) of adharma will be against your desires and the result of dharma (righteousness, religion) will be favorable to your desires.
— Dada Bhagwan
When you ‘oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone, things will happen against your wishes.
— Dada Bhagwan
The world is like a mirror; it reflects (shows) everything exactly the way it is. If there is a defect, it will reflect (show) that defect.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you are lost while travelling on the road, then if you ask a guide of the road, you will find the right way. Similarly, people have become lost on their way to moksha. They will find a solution when they meet the One (Gnani, the Enlightened One) who is familiar with the way to moksha. ‘We’ are that guide to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!
— Dada Bhagwan
The religions of the world believe abandh (discharge part) as bandh (bondage; charging of new karma) and they have no idea about what causes bandh (bondage, charging of new karma).
— Dada Bhagwan
The whole world believes that performing good deeds is dharma (religion). Performing good deeds is known as laukik dharma (worldly religion, that religion which does not lead us to self-realization but binds merit karmas).
— Dada Bhagwan
When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression ‘I am somewhat different from this [the body?]’ And when dehadhyas, the belief of ‘I am the body, the relative self’, goes away; that is when spirituality is complete.
— Dada Bhagwan
Worries and sufferings are helpful for (one’s) spiritual development.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one wants to go to Mumbai from Baroda, he will ‘like’ all the signs towards the south. And if he wants to go to Delhi, he will like all the signs towards the north. One can tell what path he is on from what he ‘likes’. There are many paths, not just one. As many minds as there are, there are that many ways and they are all intellect-based opinions. Where one is guided by the intellectual opinions, there is nothing but aimless wandering there. Only the opinions of the Vitaraag Lords (the enlightened ones) is a “safe side”!
— Dada Bhagwan
Just as the expansion and contraction of our lungs in necessary for the continuance of our physical life, so regular fellowship with God in prayer is essential to our spiritual well-being. Without prayer our spiritual lives will shrivel up and return to an infantile state.
— Paul Tautges, Pray about Everything: Cultivating God-Dependency
The simplest person who worship God is wiser than the supposed wisest people who worshiped a worthless substitute.
— ANIKOR Daniel
The Celestial (Heavenly Gods) become pleased with the one who isn’t hungry for fame and recognition. The whole world can be pleased with us, but because of our hunger they are not pleased with us.
— Dada Bhagwan
To whom does Mataji (Mother Goddess) appear? It is to the one who becomes natural and spontaneous [sahaj swabhavi]. Mataji is said to have come if the mind, speech and the body become naturally blissful. It can be said that the natural spontaneous energies (adhya shakti) have arisen.
— Dada Bhagwan
To whom should you surrender? The one who takes the responsibility for you right till the ‘end’ (moksha, the ultimate liberation). Surrender to the one who is tatharoop [attained the highest spiritual state]. Surrender to the one whom you consider a ‘Virat Purush’ [magnificent human being], otherwise there is no point of surrendering.
— Dada Bhagwan
Here’, I am a disciple just as you are. The one you see is not ‘Dada Bhagwan’; it is ‘A. M. Patel’, a Patidaar from the town of Bhadran. The one sitting within is ‘Dada Bhagwan’. ‘I’ myself make everyone do jai jai kar of Dada Bhagwan [sing praise of Dada Bhagwan]. Therefore, ‘I’ too am a devotee, as are you.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the justice of this world like? It is that the world will call him as God (Bhagwan), the one who has no thoughts about money (wealth), no thoughts of sensual pleasures and one who remains separate from his body at all times.
— Dada Bhagwan
You yourself are indeed Bhagwan [God], but the qualities of God have not yet manifested.
— Dada Bhagwan
One who turns his face towards Bhagwan [God], turns towards him; he will receive the bliss and the light. God does not do anything else.
— Dada Bhagwan
Bliss should come from within. We do not want the bliss that arises from looking on the outside. We want bliss that is eternal (sanatan anand).
— Dada Bhagwan
When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!
— Dada Bhagwan
Gnani’s [The enlightened one’s] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate liberation]. And the worldly people’s sangna [directions] is the compass then it will make you wander in the worldly life.
— Dada Bhagwan
No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply ‘Sees’.
— Dada Bhagwan
By not knowing what we needed to know and knowing what we did not need to know
—  that verily has made us cry (suffer) in this world. This indeed increases our burden.
On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of ‘apratikraman' (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done).
— Dada Bhagwan
Things come into your memory even when you don’t want them to
—  that is because ‘pratikraman dosh’ is pending (mistake for which pratikraman was not done yet).
When you see the members of your household as faultless (nirdosh) and see only your own faults, then true pratikraman will be done.
— Dada Bhagwan
A man who repents after doing any action, he will certainly become pure one day, that is definite.
— Dada Bhagwan
You (must) do plenty of ‘pratikraman’. Do the ‘pratikraman’ for an hour every day of everyone who is living around you, whomever you have harassed.
— Dada Bhagwan
What happens by doing ‘pratikraman’? The interferences that we have done (in the past), and its ‘reaction’ which will come (now), on that (reactions), we will not feel like interfering again.
— Dada Bhagwan
Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we scold someone for what they do. If you scold him, he will do it even more. (Instead) You should explain to him with love. All diseases will disappear with love. You will get pure love either from the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] or his followers!
— Dada Bhagwan
God requires two things: ‘pure love’ and ‘true justice’. Everywhere else there is relative justice. Where ‘pure love’ and ‘true justice’ exist, there comes the grace of God!
— Dada Bhagwan
Pure love’ means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not increase when you give him garlands of flowers
—  it is ‘Pure Love’. ‘Pure love’ is considered Paramatma prem (Love of God). That is indeed true religion.
The ultimate form is the embodiment of love (Premswaroop)! The love of these (so called) lovers (Romeo-Juliet) does not work there. The Love of God (the Lord) is ‘Pure Love’. That which increases or decreases is infatuation [asakti]. There is no increase or decrease in ‘Pure Love’.
— Dada Bhagwan
The amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of ‘Pure Love’ arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in totality. This is the only way.
— Dada Bhagwan
I don’t intend to fight with anyone; I have only one weapon of love. I want to win the world with love. What the world calls love, is really worldly love. [True] Love is when even if you curse me, I would not get ‘depressed’ and when you garland me with flowers, I would not become ‘elevated’. In true love, there would not be any changes. Changes can occur in the intent and feelings (bhaav) of the body, but not in ‘pure love’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Eternal love’ (sanatan sneha) is indeed moksha [ultimate liberation].
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is asakti [infatuation], there accusations cannot refrain from happening. That is indeed the nature of asakti [infatuation].
— Dada Bhagwan
Where you don’t see pure love, there is indeed no path to moksha [ultimate liberation] there. Where there is a fee, there is no pure love there!
— Dada Bhagwan
When there is not a trace of worldly love that is called ‘absolute ultimate love’ [paramarth prem]!
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no problem if the other person pushes us but we have to make sure that we do not push the other person. Only then will we obtain the love of the other person!
— Dada Bhagwan
One can become ‘Embodiment of Love’ [Prem Swaroop], only when there is no my-ness [mamata].
— Dada Bhagwan
The world believes ‘asakti’ [infatuation, attraction of atoms] to be love and (then) become confused. Woman has some work from men and men has some work from women. All this has arisen because of work (expectations). If work does not get completed, all within will complain and form an attack. Not for even a second has anyone become one’s own. Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] will become yours. That is why the Lord has said, ‘Every living being is an orphan’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Compassion is an ordinary intent that is felt for everywhere in this world and it is the intent that, ‘the whole world is trapped in worldly miseries; how can their miseries be alleviated?
— Dada Bhagwan
The fruit of worldly love is indeed revenge (vengeance).
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as parmanus (subatomic particles) match, there is oneness, and then it turns into revenge (vengeance). Wherever there is infatuation, there will indeed be revenge there.
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who becomes free from all kinds of beggary is bestowed the state of a ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].
— Dada Bhagwan
Only after beggary (bhikh) goes away completely, can one see this world ‘as it is’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].
— Dada Bhagwan
Everything in the world has a life span and We (the Self) are without a life span, so how can the two correlate? To make association with those with a life span (mortal), we too have to become one with a life span. And that has created all this fiasco.
— Dada Bhagwan
By saying ‘this is wrong’, one is selling (wasting away) an invaluable human life!
— Dada Bhagwan
To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!
— Dada Bhagwan
What do the Vitaraag [the enlightened one] say? ‘If you want to continue to remain in the worldly life, then do what people say, but if you want to attain Moksha [ultimate liberation], then do only what I say, then only you can go to Moksha!
— Dada Bhagwan
The Lord has said to the worldly people, if someone possesses certain energies, by recalling that person, the same energies will arise within you. If you don’t know how to ask for godly energies, but if you want to jump, then by recalling a monkey and asking for energies from him, you will be able to do so. If you want to bark, you have to ask for the energy from a dog! The Gnani [The Enlightened One] has infinite energies; if you recall Him, you will attain all those energies!
— Dada Bhagwan
The tolerance power is the mother of egoism!
— Dada Bhagwan
People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti).
— Dada Bhagwan
In both pleasant experience producing karma effect (shata vedaniya) and unpleasant experience producing karma effect (ashata-vedaniya), there is indeed a constant inner burning (antardaah, inner suffering). But because one has moorcha (worldly engrossment/fascination due to deluded worldly view), one does not notice it; he remains in a state similar to being unconscious.
— Dada Bhagwan
Why is there inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] present? Inner Burning [Antardaah] is not dependent/based on merit or demerit karma (paap-punya). Inner Burning [Inner suffering] is indeed present in both suffering producing karmas, unpleasant (ashata vedaniya) as well as pleasant (shata vedaniya). Inner Burning [Inner suffering] is dependent upon the wrong belief.
— Dada Bhagwan
When the wrong belief [of ‘I am Chandubhai’] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is the result of the illusion [of ‘I am Chandubhai’].
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as you are the owner (‘I am Chandubhai and all this is mine’), the worldly life remains. When does the ownership go away? When the wrong belief goes away.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is ‘common sense’? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!
— Dada Bhagwan
A ‘sensitive’ person will not have common sense.
— Dada Bhagwan
How does ‘common sense’ arise? Through conflicts. During conflicts, if one does not clash with anyone, even if the other person comes clashing with him, he should not clash with him. If one is able to remain this way, ‘common sense’ will arise. Otherwise, whatever ‘common sense’ there is, it too will disappear!
— Dada Bhagwan
Clashes should not occur whatsoever. Due to conflicts only have the energies diminished. Regardless of what may happen to the body, do not ever enter into conflicts. The body is not going to go away just because someone says so, or if someone casts a curse on it. The body is under the control of vyavasthit [scientific circumstantial evidences].
— Dada Bhagwan
Enmity [Revengeful Karma] is the main seed of conflict [clash].
— Dada Bhagwan
When you do pratikraman after conflict, the conflict is erased. When you give rise to new conflicts, the energies that had arisen will disappear again.
— Dada Bhagwan
If ‘pratikraman’ happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad).
— Dada Bhagwan
One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive – till then power of God will remain.
— Dada Bhagwan
To become God (Khuda) one does not need weapons. One needs to recognize his [True] Self (Khud). The one who knows one’s own Self (khud), is God (khuda).
— Dada Bhagwan
Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the main road to go to God, the rest are the ‘by-ways’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Sincerity’ and ‘morality’ is the basement of this world.
— Dada Bhagwan
Sincerity’ and ‘morality’, if you completely (from all angles) learn these two words then everything is completed!
— Dada Bhagwan
Religion tells you to be sincere to yourself and be sincere to everyone else otherwise you cannot assimilate [attain] religion.
— Dada Bhagwan
Moral’ means one is free to enjoy only the things that belong to him and those he receives naturally and spontaneously. That is the ultimate meaning of morality.
— Dada Bhagwan
The man who is not ‘sincere’ to others is not ‘sincere’ to his own self!
— Dada Bhagwan
If you are only ‘moral’ or only ‘sincere’, even then you will go to moksha!
— Dada Bhagwan
First live to be ‘sincere’ then ‘morality’ will follow.
— Dada Bhagwan
Things that you have remained ‘sincere’ to, those many things you have won. The world has to be won; only then will it let you go to moksha!
— Dada Bhagwan
How much is your sincerity, that much will be ‘Our’ divine grace (krupa). This is the measure of grace.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you remain ‘insincere’ to one person, then that person will hold you back from going to moksha!
— Dada Bhagwan
When you make ‘adjustments’ with everyone, that indeed is the highest of all religion (dharma).
— Dada Bhagwan
If you are not able to ‘adjust everywhere’, then even the moksha,that you have in your hand, will go away.
— Dada Bhagwan
In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work without adjusting?
— Dada Bhagwan
We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has ‘adjusted everywhere’.
— Dada Bhagwan
In a constructive policy, there is ‘adjust everywhere’ and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment.
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life remains [and is not ending and one is not going to moksha] due to the pollution of the mind [bad mind/bad thoughts] and not due to the pollution of the body.
— Dada Bhagwan
We live here for five to fifty years (in this world, in the relative) and we are searching for beautiful houses there, while where we have to live permanently (moksha; in the Real, Self), there is no work being done for it; and no one is even inquiring about that (place). The world is baseless/disorderly. ‘Do something for here and do something for there’. We are not saying not to do anything for here. Do both. Don’t you have two hands?
— Dada Bhagwan
Violent intent (Hinsak bhaav) is indeed worldly life (sansar). When there is no Violent intent (hinsak bhaav) within us while the worldly life is going on, then we become free from all responsibilities.
— Dada Bhagwan
Wherever one has to ‘do’ anything, there is worldly life (sansaar) there.
— Dada Bhagwan
Pointing out people’s mistakes, having intention to take advantage of people, keeps one bound to a worldly life (sansaar).
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life (sansar) means a basket full of worries.
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, ‘you can keep on burning!
— Dada Bhagwan
In marriage, at home and everywhere else, one is to remain superfluous. That is where people go in deep into; that is called the worldly life (sansaar).
— Dada Bhagwan
If anyone comes to me complaining about others that “this person is like this”, I will question that person first. ‘Why did you come complaining to me?’ You come complaining therefore you are the guilty one. If anyone comes complaining without being asked, then you should disregard him completely.
— Dada Bhagwan
Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.
— Dada Bhagwan
When you give decision that the guilty is not guilty, only then will the guilty become not guilty.
— Dada Bhagwan
Everything is present in the world. However, your ‘emotional state’ does not allow it to come to you. ‘Emotional’ as in instability. While going to eat, one will worry, 'will I get food or not?' That indeed is instability. If you remain stable, then everything will come to you.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you have a complaint about someone, then you become the accuser and the other becomes the accused. Never complain about anyone. He who brings a complaint is at fault, you should understand that first, then comes next, the talk about the accused.
— Dada Bhagwan
There are only two things to understand in this world. First is, one’s own True Self, and the other is, our faults from the past [life]. Won’t these faults have to be broken?
— Dada Bhagwan
If there was no such thing as a mirror in this world, then seeing our face ‘exactly’ would be considered a huge wonder.
— Dada Bhagwan
The world is not going to stop whether you become ‘emotional’ or whether you don’t become ‘emotional’. The burden on one’s head comes from becoming ‘emotional’. Otherwise, the world continues to run, it will never stand still.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as kashay’s (anger, pride, deceit, greed) do not go away, you have not attained God’s religion even a little bit. Religion of the vitarags [the enlightened ones] means absence of kashay (anger, pride, deceit, greed).
— Dada Bhagwan
Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.
— Dada Bhagwan
If anger-pride-deceit-greed occur, let them occur. There is nothing wrong if you have thoughts of bad conduct, do not be afraid, however, you must repent (do pratikraman) and turn it around, this will result in a high level of dharmadhyan [auspicious contemplation] .
— Dada Bhagwan
Is it atikraman [Hurtful karma] if we eat, cut our hair or brush our teeth? No, it is not like that. Anger-pride-deceit-greed is considered atikraman [Hurtful karma]. If you do pratikraman [Ask for forgiveness], they will all go away.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you do not believe in reincarnation then the word “prarabdh” (karma effect) should not be present in your vocabulary. Christian, Muslim, and other religion’s language is complete, but the belief is incomplete. Fortune, contrivance, lucky, unlucky – where did they get all that from? This is all a connection from the past life.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you are in ‘motion’ than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are ‘emotional’ than you are in an agitated state.
— Dada Bhagwan
In this world, there is no such thing as good or bad. If there is flower shop on one side and a butcher’s shop on the other, why should we keep spitting? You have to leave away both the bad as well as the good.
— Dada Bhagwan
Our talk is right and the other person’s talk is wrong, however if a conflict occurs, then it is wrong.
— Dada Bhagwan
Those who believe the worldly life interactions (vyavahaar) to be the real/true; developed high blood pressure, heart attacks and other such ailments. And those who believe it to be false, they became fat. Those living on both the shores, became lost wanderers. Although living the worldly life, ‘we’ are non-attached (vitaraag, the enlightened one).
— Dada Bhagwan
For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter.
— Dada Bhagwan
When one does not like to have ‘underhand’, then automatically, he will not have a superior. That is its result.
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who has become free from all mistakes, he has no superior over him; he needs no one to reprimand him. He can become whatever he desires. Our path (Akram Vignan) is a path in which a person can become such that there will be no one to reprimand him.
— Dada Bhagwan
The one, who likes to have an ‘underhand’, will inevitably come across a ‘boss’!
— Dada Bhagwan
If we protect the ‘underhand’ [those working under us], then the ‘boss’ will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the ‘underhand’, then the boss will constantly reprimand us.
— Dada Bhagwan
No living being can ever “hitch” another living being. If one were able to “hitch” another, then we can say that the principle of this world is false! In this world, no one being is a superior over another.
— Dada Bhagwan
Through the grace of a thief, one can become a thief and through the grace of a Gnani [the enlightened one], one can become a Gnani [the enlightened one].
— Dada Bhagwan
Man has obeyed commands of the Mother, the Father, the Guru; but he has not obeyed the commands of ‘God’ (Bhagwan). Had he obeyed ‘God’s’ commands, his work (for liberation) would have been accomplished. Alas! He will follow his boss’s commands and even his wife’s commands!
— Dada Bhagwan
If you keep the burden on your head, God (Bhagwan) will move away.
— Dada Bhagwan
Lava oozed up from the centre of the crater like blood from a wound. As the flaming lava touched the water it hissed and groaned. She feared she would be boiled alive.
— Alison Cooklin, The Light Travellers: Noura's Journey
He cowered in terror as the body of the beast darkened the water above him. The monster swooped around the crevice, scenting the blood trail from Luke's foot. Luke saw that several of his toes had been ripped off. He felt sick.
— Alison Cooklin, The Light Travellers: Luke's Journey
Instead of living together (in a joint family) with a difference of opinions, it is better to live separately and live with unity.
— Dada Bhagwan
That which is external, it is instrumental (naimitik); it is relative and it is perishable [destructive]. Instrumental means no one has a say in it. One’s actions are not of his own free will; he is under the control of external power. So on what basis do you need to object? Sooner or later you will have to become free from objections.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you take an objection in the ‘relative’, it is intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ don’t have intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ are abuddha (do not have intellect) in the ‘relative’, and we are a Gnani [the enlightened one] in the ‘real’.
— Dada Bhagwan
All these objections are raised by people, has God raised them? He who wants to be free (attain Liberation) has no objections, and he who wants to be bound, he will have nothing but objections. People become addicts of objections.
— Dada Bhagwan
You can remain faultless only when you constantly remain as a nimit [instrument, one of the doer and not the whole and sole doer] and remain in the intent of being an instrument [intent that I am one of the doer of many scientific circumstantial evidences]
— Dada Bhagwan
Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the real you and cant judge you for it. If you live it long enough it becomes an addiction, like all things, too much of it and you will go insane but not enough of it will also send you there.n
— Nikki Rowe
Fear the howling of the demons in the darkness of your mind. Do not allow them to overshadow the light of your soul. Do not walk blindly into the darkness, or be snatched up by the wicked embrace of the devil.
— Michael  Daugherty
To object/protest (vandha), create difficulties (vachka), and wrong beliefs (agnan) – these three are the reasons the world’s delusion remains. It is to eradicate just these three things that all the worldly scriptures have been created.
— Dada Bhagwan
In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything.
— Dada Bhagwan
Regardless of the amount of kashays [anger, pride, deceit, greed] the other person creates, if you win over the kashays with the Gnan [real knowledge] abundance from within, when the kashays have no effect on you from within, then it is considered as winning the world.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you are visiting someone and his wife feeds you a wonderful meal, you should be grateful but you should not wish that it would be nice if she could go home with you. Having such intents towards food and eating leads one to become increasingly possessed with turmoil (worldly suffering). This is why the Lord has said for us to enjoy but not become the enjoyer, to do something which we like but do not become habituated about it.
— Dada Bhagwan
In this world, if you raise objections saying, ‘my mother-in-law harasses me. My father-in-law harasses me’, then there is no end to it. Instead, just put up a sign that says, ‘no objection whatsoever!’ Even if someone comes raising objection [issues with you], you do not let any problems with him, can you or can you not keep it that way?
— Dada Bhagwan
Beastliness means taking that is unrightful [of someone’s else right], eating that is unrightful, thinking of accumulating things which is unrightful [not of one’s own right]. There is no problem in whatever comes to us rightfully [of which we are worthy of owning it].
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit.
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is contempt/scornful rejection and slander, there wealth will not remain.
— Dada Bhagwan
What do the vitarags [the enlightended one] say? If you want to be beaten up, then beat others. If you want to be slandered, then slander someone.
— Dada Bhagwan
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].
— Dada Bhagwan
What do the vitarags [the enlightened one] say? This world will keep on running, You do not interfere with anything in it. If you want to attain ultimate liberation (moksha) then you will have maintain a state of vitaragta (state free of attachment).
— Dada Bhagwan
If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.
— Dada Bhagwan
To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities].
— Dada Bhagwan
Merit karma is a credit amount and demerit karma is a debit amount [owe the amount to repay]. One is free to spend his accumulated amount wherever he wants.
— Dada Bhagwan
If the fruit (of your effort) is to your expectations, it is the effect (prarabdha, result) of your merit karma [punya karma], if it is not to your expectation, then it is the effect of your demerit karma [paap karma].
— Dada Bhagwan
In the act of selfishness, you bind demerit karma and in the act of sacrificing your own self-interest for the sake of others [selflessness], you bind merit karma. Nevertheless, they are both karma, aren’t they? The fruit of merit karma is shackles of gold and fruit of demerit karma is shackles of iron but they are both indeed shackles, aren’t they?
— Dada Bhagwan
Speech’ is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats).
— Dada Bhagwan
Every spoken word carries great risk. Therefore, it is better to remain silent if one does not know how to talk. Talking about religion carries religious risks, talking about worldly matters, carries worldly risks. The worldly risk will go away, but religious risk is very heavy; it creates grave obstacles in regards to religion.
— Dada Bhagwan
(Spoken) words are considered an ‘expense’. ‘Speech’ should not be spent away. Speech is wealth. It should be 'counted' upon spending. Does anyone ever give out money without counting it?
— Dada Bhagwan
Don’t calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don’t stop to do calculation, just keep on moving.
— Dada Bhagwan
It is possible for one to receive all the glory of the world provided there is absolutely no ill intent, within him.
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life means a puzzle of ‘wrong beliefs’.
— Dada Bhagwan
The whole world is immersed in ‘wrong belief’. Even though ‘belief’ is wrong, one truly believes it is his own, doesn't he? He believes it to be completely true, doesn't he?
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life is not the trouble, the ‘wrong belief’ is the trouble [oopadhi]. What happens when you believe that which is not yours, as being yours? You will be in trouble.
— Dada Bhagwan
How many troubles (oopadhi) should you keep? Do not invite those that do not come and don't stop the ones that are leaving.
— Dada Bhagwan
The worldly life (sansar) is the thing created through delusion [wrong belief]. Therefore when you come to know about this wrong belief, it will go away.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no place for beggary [wanting things from others] in the current era. The law of vyavasthit [scientific circumstantial evidences] is such that one who has decided never to beg, will never have situation to beg.
— Dada Bhagwan
I’ have not had to borrow or beg for years. This world is indeed all yours. If you know how to 'see', if you know how to view the world, if you know how to understand the world, then the world is truly all yours. You are truly the Owner.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is trust? It is when there is no objection in the 'parliament' (comprised of mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is within; when there is agreement amongst all; that is called trust.
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who has confidence (trust) in his own self, he can get everything in this world. But one does not have that confidence (trust), does he? Once the confidence is lost, it is all over. There is infinite power and energy in trust (confidence of one’s own self), even if the trust is in the ignorant state [ignorance of one’s own true self].
— Dada Bhagwan
If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within.
— Dada Bhagwan
Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you want to attain moksha (ultimate liberation), then you cannot give unsolicited advice. Give advice only when it is asked for. In order to give advice, you have to become the chief!
— Dada Bhagwan
Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?
— Dada Bhagwan
Advice should only be given when it is sought, otherwise our own worthiness gets assessed.
— Dada Bhagwan
Accept only as much ‘cleanliness’ that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain ‘cleanliness’ such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage.
— Dada Bhagwan
Eternal joy arises by living in the 'permanent room'. Living in the 'temporary room' gives temporary joy.
— Dada Bhagwan
This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one’s causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.
— Dada Bhagwan
Don’t speak of action [effect]. Don’t serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause.
— Dada Bhagwan
The path of the vitarags [the enlightened ones] is not one of ‘objection’. It is a path of giving ‘no objection’. They remain indifferent if circumstances for objection arises.
— Dada Bhagwan
When you maintain silence, you would have said to have understood the world.
— Dada Bhagwan
In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.
— Dada Bhagwan
However much silence you behold, that amount of intellect will stop.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right.
— Dada Bhagwan
All the words thrown on to others will eventually fall on you, so speak such pure words so that pure words will indeed fall on you.
— Dada Bhagwan
In this world, no word is being uselessly spoken.
— Dada Bhagwan
Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.
— Dada Bhagwan
What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone.
— Dada Bhagwan
How is power of speech (vacchanbud) attained? It is when, not a single word is uttered to make fun of others; when not a single word is uttered for wrong selfish motives, material self-gain; when speech has not been misused; when speech has not been used to gain recognition or importance from others - that is when one's power of speech is attained.
— Dada Bhagwan
How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own ‘safeside’?
— Dada Bhagwan