Hindu Quotes: A Journey Through Timeless Wisdom
Even a drop of water shines like a pearl on a lotus leaf.
Your soul is your best friend. Treat it with care, nurture it with growth, feed it with love.
The earth is sustained by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
The wheel of cause and effect is endlessly in motion.
The bird of liberation flies alone.
The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice.
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and flows from pure consciousness.
A tree lives on its roots. If you change the roots, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
A person attains MOKSHA (salvation) when he starts believing that god resides in every living being
The secret of karma is in understanding that we are part of a vast interconnected web of life where all things are dissolved into one.
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering, like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
Let the world applaud or blame, let kings and emperors come and go, the wise man remains immersed in the ecstasy of self.
You have come into this world to fulfill a purpose. You are the spark that will set the world on fire.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Change is not painful, only the resistance to change is painful
As we think, so we become. As the universe, so the soul.
Do not get upset with people or situations, both are powerless without your reaction.
The mind under control is your best friend, the mind wandering about is your worst enemy. – Bhagavad Gita
Set your heart upon your work, but never on its reward. – Krishna
There is neither this world, nor the world beyond nor happiness for the one who doubts. – Upanishads
A person can rise through the efforts of his own mind; or draw himself down, in the same manner. Because each person is his own friend or enemy. – Bhagavad Gita
In still mind, in the depths of meditation, the eternal self reveals itself. – Bhagavad Gita
That one is dear to me who runs not after the pleasant or away from the painful, grieves not, lusts not, but lets things come and go as they happen. – Krishna
Mediation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. – Upanishads
Anger, desire, and ignorance are the three poisonous roots of all suffering. – The Ramayana
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. – Bhagavad Gita
Like the bee collecting honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions. – Ramakrishna
Happiness springs naturally in the world within when you stop seeking it in the world without.
True knowledge is the realization of the Self; it is beyond words, thoughts, and perceptions.
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
Life is a play, applaud but never lose your heart to it.
Truth cannot be suppressed and will always stand firm.
Take the first step in faith, even if you don’t see the whole staircase.
The goal of life is self-realization; to realize one?s kinship with divinity.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Wisdom is knowing when you know enough.
One thorn of suffering is worth a wilderness of warning.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Awareness is the mighty river that flows through all the rivers of meditation.
The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Tolerance and patience are not signs of weakness, but signs of strength.
The beauty of the universe is within you. Seek that and be that.
Drop your fears, drop your desires, recognize your essence and embrace truth.
The self in you is the same as the self in all: life is the same in all.
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.