Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[surrogate corpse]

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." (S. Beckett)

[Taomeow]

Where evil's reach falls short, stupidity gleefully finishes the task. -- Marina and Sergey Dyachenko

[Mark Foote]

 

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

 

W. C. Fields

 

 

Edited April 28 by Mark Foote

[blue eyed snake]

[blue eyed snake]

[Apech]

On 31/03/2024 at 5:38 PM, silent thunder said:

My home lies inside me, it goes where I go.  I am always home.  ~ my Sami ancestors

My home lies on top of me, it goes where I go.  I am always home.  - a snail.

[Ajay0]

It is the nature of the human mind that negative thoughts cause overthinking. When we dwell on someone’s good qualities, the mind remains calm and there are few thoughts. But think about something you do not like in someone and there
will be a long train of thoughts. That changes our perception and attitude towards them. - Sister Shivani ( Prajapita Brahmakumaris )

 

Understand that you are ready for moksha (enlightenment), when you can see your own mistakes. Without awareness, no one can see his own faults. But if he needed to, he can easily see two to five hundred or so faults in others. ~ Ambalal Muljibhai Patel ( Dada Bhagwan )

[blue eyed snake]

[blue eyed snake]

for @Maddie

 

[Sanity Check]

"Stubbornness has been a more valuable survival trait than intelligence, for the majority of human existence. Which is most of us have a kneejerk reaction of solving disagreements and problems with stubbornness rather than by using our brains."

 

--Me

[Taomeow]

"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”

-- Richard P. Feynman

[silent thunder]

5 hours ago, Taomeow said:

"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”

-- Richard P. Feynman

Thanks for sharing.  One of my heroes and being re-gifted this, this morning is blissful synchronicity.

[Ajay0]

Before knowing the truth if you depend on your intelligence you can be misled completely.
 

Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego, is not pure intelligence, it is just your ego, which says, “This is right”, “I say”, “I believe”, “I am like this” – that is ego. After realization the truth that comes to you is the real pure truth and is not your ego. ~ Nirmala Devi


A person is wise who does not only know what is right and wrong, but also he knows very well his own power not to do something wrong. He just does not do it.

Wisdom is a complete power within ourselves by which we try nothing. It just spontaneously works through us and we do things which are proper and right.~ Nirmala Devi


Wisdom you don’t get in colleges, schools,universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong. ~ Nirmala Devi

[Ajay0]

“In each moment you must decide which is your master – the Truth or the ego.” ~ Maharishikaa Preeti

 

You have at the center of your system this truth impulse. And you also have to deal with the great ego noise, the ego lie.

And so every urge to action that arises from your system, its being like a scientist, you are trying to find out where is this urge to action arising from.

Is it arising from the ego noise, the ego lie !

Or is it arising from the Truth impulse, the soul impulse ? ~ Maharishikaa Preeti

 

Everyone needs to know that they have a guru, and that this guru is the Source of all the answers they need, to navigate this process of living. They need to know that this guru is the AntarAatman or Soul or Source that resides within them, and they need to know how to listen to the answers from Source. ~ Maharishikaa Preeti

[Ajay0]

"The inner voice speaks unto him who has annihilated his ego or false personality." ~ Swami Sivananda

 

Never mistake the lower mind’s promptings for the voice of the soul”. ~ Swami Sivananda

 

“The pure conscience itself is the “Inner Voice”. But the difficulty in the ordinary man is that the voice of the lower mind, the voice of the brutal instincts, is often misunderstood as the voice of conscience. As a result of such misunderstanding, guided by his animal tendencies, he commits colossal blunders, involving danger to others. It requires a great degree of purity and calmness of mind to hearken the true Inner Voice.” ~ Swami Sivananda

[Ajay0]

There are moments in your life when you must act, even though you cannot carry your best friends with you. The 'still small voice' within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

Having made a ceaseless effort to attain self-purification, I have developed some little capacity to hear correctly and clearly the 'still small voice within'. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

I shall lose my usefulness the moment I stifle the still small voice within. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

Before one is able to listen to that voice, one has to go through a long and fairly serve course of training, and when it is the inner voice that speaks, it is unmistakable. The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time. There is, therefore, no danger of anarchy setting in because a humble man like me will not be suppressed and will dare to claim the authority of the inner voice, when he believes that he has heard it. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

https://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap05.htm

Edited June 12 by Ajay0

[Ajay0]

We all have a small voice within which tells us if something is not quite right. When you disregard that voice, then you do something inaccurate. When you do act upon that inner voice, you are usually pleasantly surprised at how well it turned out. ~ Dadi Janki ( Prajapita Brahmakumaris)


Our innate wisdom which we call the inner voice or intuition always knows what is right for us. It constantly guides us in the right direction, and all we need to do is to learn to listen to it. Let us spend a few minutes with ourselves on a daily basis. Meditation and spiritual study silences our noisy minds and activate our intuition. ~ Brahmakumaris


Observe your mind and it gets silent. When the mind is still, intuition will speak. When the sound of your memories and beliefs will pause, the music of truth will play. ~ Brahmakumaris


When you listen more to your intuition, you will also master the art of silencing your mind, thereby controlling your thoughts better. ~ Brahmakumaris

[Ajay0]

The Guru within you is Satchidananda. It directs you continuously. It advises you. Sometimes you listen. Sometimes you don’t and then you get burnt and cry. It will say, “Please next time be careful.” We call that the antar Atma, the inner Self which constantly guides you. It is your conscience. “Be true to your Self,” we say. That is the Self. Listen to that Self. ` ~ Swami Satchidananda


Don’t allow the monkey mind or the ego within to guide you; it will drag you into the ditch.~ Swami Satchidananda


When you completely give up your ego, you hear the voice within. You hear the Guru within. Then it becomes very easy to face the life, to win the battle. ~ Swami Satchidananda

[Ajay0]

The quieter you become the more you are able to hear. ~ Rumi

 

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence. ~ Aurobindo

 

In silence lies the source of the highest inspirations. ~ Mira alfassa

 

Whatever is the difficulty if we keep truly quiet the solution will come. ~ Mira alfassa

 

In concentration and silence we must gather strength for the right action. ~ Mira alfassa

[Ajay0]

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

 

When we listen to the Inner Voice, our outer life becomes full of peace. ~ Sri Chinmoy

 

Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts. At this moment, our instincts are very impure. When we have practiced for a long time, living the higher values of life and following the instructions of great masters or the Scriptures, that is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice. ~ Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati

[Ajay0]

The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice. ~ Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda


“Intuition gives the soul knowledge of itself (Self-realization). Intuition also bestows clear understanding of truth and duty amidst the confusions of the world.” ~ Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

[Ajay0]

The more you meditate and keep your mind in tune with the Divine Consciousness, the stronger your intuition becomes. In addition, persons who have controlled their emotions and who are calm within have much keener intuitional powers. ~ Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

 

Always remember: As you move on the dark path of life, the greatest thing is to develop that intuitive faculty. That can only come through meditation; there is no other way. When I use intuition it always shows me the right decision to make. It never fails.~ Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

 

This intuition comes to you as an inner voice, or whispering. You must be careful to distinguish that inner guidance from the delusive fanciful voices of the subconscious mind. ~ Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

[Ajay0]

Everyday life must be guided by discrimination and inspired by the highest intuitions. ~ Meher Baba

 

The intuition is not an emotion or psychic thing; it's not imagination; in some sense it's developing a higher contact with Reality than that which reason gives us. ~ Meher Baba

 

https://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/intu.html

[Taomeow]

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

 

-- attributed (possibly erroneously) to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[Ajay0]

'Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to.

 

As you listen more and more to the teachings, contemplate them, and integrate them into your life, your inner voice, your innate wisdom of discernment, what we call in Buddhism “discriminating awareness,” is awakened and strengthened, and you begin to distinguish between its guidance and the various clamorous and enthralling voices of ego. The memory of your real nature, with all its splendor and confidence, begins to return to you.

 

You will find, in fact, that you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide, and as the voice of your wise guide, or discriminating awareness, grows stronger and clearer, you will start to distinguish between its truth and the various deceptions of the ego, and you will be able to listen to it with discernment and confidence.' ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

 

 

'We have also lost the sensitivity to listen to our own inner voice. Loss of this sensitivity is largely due to the conditioning of modernity that makes us think about ourselves as something independent and artificial.

 

We have distanced ourselves from our own nature, and when we distance ourselves from our own nature we also distance ourselves from nature surrounding us outside. This distance creates fear and conflict.' ~ 5th Samdhong Rinpoche, Lobsang Tenzin