Quotes by Spiritual Leaders

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play...
Meher Baba
Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past not to worry about the future nor to anticipate troubles but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
Buddha
If people are suffering then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.
The Dalai Lama
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
The Buddha
In truth to attain to interior peace one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
Swami Brahmananda
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
The Buddha
In truth to attain to interior peace one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
Swami Brahmananda
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down.
Satya Sai Baba
When you learn to live for others they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson
If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
Marianne Williamson
If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama
The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.
Meher Baba
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha
Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk
Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson
Through zeal knowledge is gotten through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
Buddha
Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
Marianne Williamson
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.
Marianne Williamson
If people are suffering then they must look within themselves. ... Happiness is not something ready-made [Buddha] can give you. It comes from your own actions.
The Dalai Lama
As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.
Dalai Lama XIV
Now is the time to make good use of time.Today is the day to begin a perfect day.
Sri Chinmoy
Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.
Dalai Lama XIV
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life.
Sri Chinmoy
I took note of the Buddha's teaching that in one sense a supposed enemy is more valuable than a friend, for an enemy teaches you things, such as forbearance, that a friend generally does not.
Dalai Lama XIV
Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Gautama Buddha
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Gautama Buddha
There is but one God. He at first appears as life-power in the body, and finally transforms into Supreme Bliss. These are all but various aspects of God with forms, and nothing can be said of God without any form .
Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
In terms of experience, we want to make this (referring to the self) very pleasant. We want this to be blissful, ecstatic. But, as I said before, even being ecstatic is not goal by itself. If you are blissful by your own nature, then the important thing is that you are no more the issue. There are other issues in this existence; we can look at those. But if you are an issue, what other issue will you take in your hands? You will not touch anything. When I am enough trouble myself, why do I want to take on this one or that one? When I am no more an issue, now I am willing to dig into the whole existence and see what it is all about.
Sadhguru
If you say, ’If those conditions are fulfilled then I will be blissful’, then these conditions are never going to be fulfilled. And, secondly, even if these conditions are fulfilled, by that time you will have lost the very capacity to celebrate and enjoy. And moreover, when these conditions are fulfilled – if ever, because they cannot be fulfilled – your mind will create further ideals.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama XIV
Of course, we all go through our own experiences. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.
Sakyong Mipham
How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.
J.P. Vaswani
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
Dalai Lama XIV
Two thousand and five hundred years ago Lord Buddha announced, ‘By self- exertion we will achieve ‘Nirvana’, and then Hinduism announced, ‘By self-mortification and self-exertion we shall achieve the supreme knowledge. But this supreme knowledge means knowledge of oneness. No, not the knowledge of oneness, it is rather oneness only and that is achieved spontaneously.
Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
What is God? God is a motion – perpetual motion. This normal motion is always running within a human body. A man has come to this earth to become God. What I have understood? I have only understood that God is one. I have not understood anything except this oneness.
Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
To see the divine in others, we have to love. Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness. This oneness comes from our conscious acceptance of his reality as it is.
Sri Chinmoy
Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate relationship is not that it be a place where we can hide from our weaknesses, but rather where we can safely let them go. It takes strength of character to truly delve into the mystery of an intimate relationship, because it takes the strength to endure a kind of psychic surgery, an emotional and psychological and even spiritual initiation into the higher Self. Only then can we know an enchantment that lasts.
Marianne Williamson
His [Vyāsadeva's] son was a great devotee, an equibalanced monist, whose mind was always concentrated in monism. He was transcendental to mundane activities, but being unexposed, he appeared like an ignorant person.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Do you know what is God? – Life power undergoing various changes in the process of yoga as depicted, gets up in the Cerebrum – This is God.
Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.
Dalai Lama XIV
When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the problems. Share your joy with everyone.Listen to others; yet do not listen. If your mind gets stuck in their problems, not only are they miserable, but you also become miserable.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
As one of the seven billion human beings, I believe everyone has the responsibility to develop a happier world.
HH DALAI LAMA
Everything else can wait but your search for God cannot wait.
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
When we talk of "exploring the mystical," we are not trying to dig into creation, because if you dig into creation, it will only get more complex. It will not bring clarity; it will only bring more complexity. That is why the yogis looked in a different direction. We looked inward. If you look inward, a different dimension opens up. Now instead of things getting more complex, you get to clarity. It is because of this that we say that those who look inward have a third eye. They see things that others cannot see. They have brought a new clarity to life.
Sadhguru
You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible. If you keep all your ideas, emotions and your nonsense aside, maybe you can take a step, move one inch. One little step existentially is worth more than all the scriptures that you can read on the planet. One little step is far more important than all the philosophies that you can spout.
Sadhguru