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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
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One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is…
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?…
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing…
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to…
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There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.
— Max Muller
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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
— Niels Bohr
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The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which…
— Joseph Campbell
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In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same.…
— Rajneesh
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The Gita is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Vedas and the Upanishads.
— Swami Vivekananda
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I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the…
— Joseph Campbell
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If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than…
— Sivananda
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