“In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle.”
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“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”
“The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.”
“To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflection s of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit.”
“See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.”
“If God answered all of your prayers, would the world look different or just your life?”
“Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason....When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the only answer for me was the Qur'an and God had sent it to me.”
“Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams”
“Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.”
“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”
“It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things running right. We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us the illusion that we are in charge. I need to say to myself, they're not needed, hon. Just take in the buggy pleasures. Be kind to the others, grab the fleck of riverweed, notice how beautifully your bug legs scull.”
“The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.”
“Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.”
“No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.”
“The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.”
“By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.”
“The source of the ego is God.”
“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.”