teacher Quotes

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

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• life

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

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• life

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

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• abandon

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

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• feelings

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

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• thoughts

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now.

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• events

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection

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• Present

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

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• birth

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

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• family

Nobody

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• Pain

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

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• moment

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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• blind

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

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• ahead

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

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• anybody

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

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• crooked

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

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• knowledge

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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• done

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

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• Present

There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

• work

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

• religion

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

• work

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

• partner

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

• love

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

• moment

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.

• god

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

• people

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

• life

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

• soul

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

• moment

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

• soul

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

• thoughts

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

• mind

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

• thinking

Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

• think

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

• life

You are not a problem that needs solving.

• problem

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

• life

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

• life

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

• nature

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

• life

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

• moment

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

• love

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

• become

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

• strength

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

• spiritual

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'

• world

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

• god

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

• death

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

• self

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

• memories