Fuel for the Soul: Quotes to Celebrate Life in Every Breath
Buddha
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless, then he is in truth called wise.”
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
“Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
“If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.”
“Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.”
“The root of suffering is attachment.”
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”
“If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, sorrow follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.”
Tantra
“Tantra is primarily about uniting love, spirituality and sexuality with awareness.” — Osho
“Tantra is a complete science of self-realization, based on the cumulative wisdom of centuries of exploration into the meaning of life and consciousness.” — Osho
“Tantra is the path of awareness; every action, thought, and feeling can be a doorway to higher consciousness.” — Osho
“The body is the temple of the spirit; by honoring it, one discovers the sacred in every moment.” — Osho
“Sacredness and sensuality are not separate; to recognize their unity is Tantra.” — Osho
“In Tantra, love is a meditation, and meditation is love; the union of hearts mirrors the universe.” — Margot Anand
“Presence is the key to ecstasy; Tantra is the art of being fully present.” — Osho
“Tantra is not an external ritual but a method to transform the mind, body, and heart.” — Babaji
Tantra provides the methodology whereby, through the fulfillment of one’s desires, liberation is attained.”
“Sexual energy, when consciously transformed, becomes the energy of creativity and spiritual awakening.” — Margot Anand
“Creative and sexual energy are the forces that drive inspiration, art, and life itself.” — Deepak Chopra
“Through Tantra, the heart opens, the body relaxes, and consciousness expands.” — Margot Anand
“Those who have mastered the discipline can go beyond rules; Tantra requires freedom of spirit.” — Frederick Lenz
“True Tantra is the path of compassion and intelligence, leading one to liberation without unnecessary delay.” — Dalai Lama XIV
“Tantra is like a set of powerful, transformative tools that can bring new meaning and joy to every aspect of our daily lives.” — Osho
Jagadguru Adi Shankara
“The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions, seems real until the awakening.”
“Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.”
“Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.”
“Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.”
“Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.”
“Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.”
“As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and pride through meditation and attains Reality.”
“Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego—the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.”
"As long as one identifies with the body and the mind, one suffers; when one realizes the Self, all sorrow ceases.”
“Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.”
“What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.”
“Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence–Consciousness–Bliss [Sat-Chit-Ananda].”
“There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.”
“That which is beyond all thought, beyond all speech, beyond all dualities—realize that as your own Self, and there is liberation.”
“All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.”
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
“Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.”
“Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.”
“The wise man speaks little. His whole life is a religion expressed in action.”
“Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.”
“God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.”
“The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.”
“Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.”
“You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.”
“Do not seek to know God through argument. See Him through love and devotion.”
“The mind steeped in worldliness can never realize God. One must renounce attachment to realize Him.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you… There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
“Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves… be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone.”
“All power is within you. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak… Stand up and express the Divinity within you.”
“Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.”
“To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance… ‘I will drink the ocean,’ says the persevering soul…”
“Never fear what will become of you; depend on no one.”
“This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”
“Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within…”
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified.”
“They alone live, who live for others.”
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Don’t go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.”
“From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.”
“The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.”
"Being is the basis of thinking, thinking is the basis of action, action is the basis of achievement and achievement is the basis of fulfillment.”
“Don’t fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear.”
“God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace.”
“The Self of everyone… is the same in everyone.”
“Bliss Consciousness may be lived at all times; it is necessary that it should not be lost when the mind comes out of meditation and engages in activity.”
“Right action… is the result of this state of consciousness in freedom.”
“Mastery of the senses is gained only through the state of established intellect…”
“The Bhagavad-Gītā gives a very clear exposition… slight practice relieves man of great fears.”
“The basis of peace is bliss. Unless one is happy, he cannot be in peace.”
“The constitution of the universe is total natural law. ‘Natural law’… ‘Will of God’… It’s the same thing.”
“In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body…”
Ramana Maharshi
“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
“Happiness is your nature. … Begin liberating it from its restlessness…”
“There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement.”
“Happiness is your nature. … What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
“If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.”
“Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self.”
“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true Self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones. The wiser way is to wear shoes.”
“There is only the Present.”
“Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth.”
“Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.”
“Silence is also conversation.”
“Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.”
“Realisation is not something to be gained afresh; it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought ‘I have not realized.’”
“The inquiry ‘who am I’ turns the mind inward and makes it calm.”
Osho
“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”
“Experience life in all possible ways – good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. … the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”
“To be creative means to be in love with life. Bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness is like the roots. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky.”
“Love is the goal, life is the journey.”
“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
“When one is centered in oneself, one becomes one with the whole universe.”
“A little foolishness enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.”
“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before.”
“Be — don’t try to become.”
“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”
“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”
“Be realistic: plan for a miracle.”
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.”
“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long…”
“Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free…”
“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
“The power of changing oneself lies not in the mind, but in the body and the feelings…”
“A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it…”
“Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts…”
“Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.”
“When we speak of prayer … Many of them are, so to speak, recapitulations…”
“One of man's important mistake is his illusion in regard to his I”
“Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself—only with yourself…”
““Man is a machine.”
“Let us take some event in the life of humanity… It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy…”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. … that is why you must read, sing, and dance, and write poems, suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
“You are the world and the world is you.”
“Truth is a pathless land.”
“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent.”
“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”
“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”
“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
“A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with belief is really an uncreative mind.”
“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
“Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.”
“Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative.”
“Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.”
“Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.”
Sadhguru
“Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”
“The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.”
“If you resist change, you resist life.”
“When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you.”
“Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.”
“Love is your quality. Love is not what you do. The whole experience is contained within.”
“Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.”
“If you want to become life sensitive, live the way the Creator made you—utterly blissful and infinitely responsible.”
“You are always a winner. Sometimes you win, sometimes you make others win.”
“On this Guru Purnima day, dedicate yourself to your inner wellbeing. Do your sadhana, make a miracle of your mind.”
“If you operate out of the straitjacket of logic, you remain a clown in the circus of life.”
“Create a loving, supportive atmosphere and let your child be free to grow.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.”
“Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing.”
“Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.”
“Accept people and situations as they are in life and then take action.”
“Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life, the ultimate freedom.”
“Yoga is not just doing some exercise, it is to expand your awareness, sharpen your intellect.”
“The goal of spirituality is to bring such happiness, which nobody can take away from you.”
“If you do not want to be unhappy, no one else can make you unhappy.”
“Impatience means hurry in the mind; lethargy means slowness in action.”
“If you follow fun, misery follows you. If you follow knowledge, happiness will follow you.”
“Meditation is the journey from sound to silence… from a limited identity to unlimited space.”
“If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.”
“Memory tends to hold on to the negative, spirituality reverses this.”
“Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, you can change the emotion.”
“The purpose of yoga is to put a smile on your face in spite of all the stress.”
Lahiri Mahasaya
“Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world – so make the acquaintanceship of God now.”
“Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life.”
“Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.”
“All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God.”
“Seek divine wealth, not the paltry tinsel of earth. After acquiring inward treasure, you will find that outward supply is always forthcoming.”
“Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.”
“I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.”
“Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe.”
“He only is wise who devotes himself to realizing, not reading only, the ancient revelations.”
“By serving wise and ignorant sadhus, I am learning the greatest of virtues, pleasing to God above all others — humility.”
“If you don’t invite God to be your summer Guest, He won’t come in the winter of your life.”
“Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery.”
“Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.”
“Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.”
“Even in the world, remain as a yogi.”
Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri
“Everything in the future will improve if you make a spiritual effort today.”
“Keep your eyes of reason open; in addition, I will open in you another eye, the eye of wisdom.”
“Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change.”
“Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.”
“Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames.”
“Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine.”
“Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary. Continual intellectual study results in vanity.”
“A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma.”
“When love appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system.”
“The Four Ideas: the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom are therefore one and the same.”
“Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.”
“Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.”
“Wisdom is knowing ‘I am nothing’; Love is knowing ‘I am everything’; and between these two, my life turns.”
“The world is only a reflection of yourself. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.”
“Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.”
“To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.”
“You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it’s busy or quiet?”
“When pain is accepted for what it is, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down.”
“Meet your own Self. Be with your own Self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it. You need no other guide.”
“Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road. Life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple.”
“When you sit quiet and watch yourself, don’t react. All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself.”
“You are complete here and now; you need absolutely nothing.”
“Put your awareness to work, not your mind. The timeless can be reached only by the timeless.”
“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that’s wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that’s love.”
“You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
“Happiness depends on your thoughts.”
“Be calm within yourself.”
“Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.”
“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”
“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
“Stillness is the altar of spirit.”
“Perceive life wisely to be happy.”
“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”
“Become still, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.”
“Be indifferent to what makes no difference.”
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.”
“Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! Forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! Control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.”
“Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them”
“Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion.”
“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery.”
Anandamayi Ma
“Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one’s Self—this is supreme happiness.”
“As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body.”
“Whenever you possibly can, sustain the flow of a sacred Name. To repeat His name is to be in His presence.”
“When by the flood of your tears the inner and the outer have fused into one, you will find Her, nearer than the nearest, the very breath of life.”
“Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Kali or Allah, you actually worship the one Light that is also in you, since It pervades all things.”
“Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization… The way to Peace lies in the remembrance of Him and of Him alone.”
“Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away.”
“When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.”
“Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him?”
“How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!”
“There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.”
“Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own.”
“Either melt by devotion the sense of separateness, or burn it by knowledge. What will happen then? You come to know your Self.”
“It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms. The One is all of them.”
“Every moment belongs to God; endeavor to keep your mind dedicated to His Feet. God, the Ocean of Mercy pours out His grace at all times.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.”
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
“Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?”
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything — anger, anxiety, or possessions — we cannot be free.”
“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”
“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.”
“Life is available only in the present moment.”
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”
“Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.”
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
“If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.”
“You are a flower. Every child is born in the garden of humanity as a flower."
Tibetan proverbs
“Even the hills nod in agreement if one is eloquent in speech; even the hills grimace in anger when one is harsh in words.”
“Patience is the highest virtue; through it, all obstacles are overcome.”
“A kind word is like a spring day; harsh words bring winter’s chill.”
“Eat according to the limits of your provisions; walk according to the length of your step.”
“He who has had enough to eat thinks of serving God; the hungry think of stealing.”
“Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold.”
“Learn to stand up where one falls.”
“A fool who pretends to be clever only highlights his foolishness.”
“Even a single step forward on the path is better than a thousand days of inaction.”
“Cling not to experiences, for they are ever-changing.”
“A single thread doesn’t make a cloth; a single tree doesn’t make a forest.”
“The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.”
“With a resolute heart, a mouse can lift an elephant.”
“Wherever you have friends, that’s your country. Wherever you receive love, that’s your home.”
“Wisdom lies in knowing when to speak and when to remain silent.”
Milarepa
“Meditate on the nature of your mind, and liberation will arise.”
“Empty your mind of all thoughts; clarity will naturally shine.”
“I dwell alone, free of desire and attachment, singing the songs of liberation.”
“Better to have one moment of genuine meditation than to perform religious activities for a thousand years.”
“All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.”
“All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow, births in death.”
“My religion is to live and die without regret.”
“Life is brief; practice diligently, for meditation is the true refuge.”
“In your heart, the wisdom of all Buddhas is present; realize it.”
“Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest.”
“Renounce attachment, and the mind becomes free; worldly wealth is dust.”
“Step by step, with patience, the yogi reaches realization.”
“Recognize the emptiness of all things, and act with compassion.”
“All phenomena are fleeting like clouds; cling to nothing.”
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