In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
– Swami Vivekananda
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
– Kabir
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you; none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
– Swami Vivekananda
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
– Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Just as the fire is the direct cause for cooking, so without Knowledge no emancipation can be had. Compared with all other forms of discipline knowledge of the Self is the one direct means for liberation.
– Adi Shankara
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
– Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
– Buddha
One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.
– Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
– Kabir
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
– Chanakya
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
– Samuel Ullman
Those who worship don’t know, and those who know don’t worship.
– Bodhidharma
In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
– Swami Vivekananda
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
– Bodhidharma
The Soul appears to be finite because of ignorance. When ignorance is destroyed the Self which does not admit of any multiplicity truly reveals itself by itself: like the Sun when the clouds pass away.
– Adi Shankara
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
– Adi Shankara
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.
– Billy Corgan
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
– Ramakrishna Paramahamsa