Quotes by Spiritual Teachers

Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity. Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while alive, and fear of death dissolves. Fear of death is fear of the Unknown. Realize the Wonder, the Eternal Unknowability of the Totality of Existence, and fear of death is transcended. If happiness or freedom depends on the Answer to the Question, then there can be no happiness or freedom. The Question cannot be satisfactorily or finally Answered. For one who abides at Infinity, happy and free, at ease with his Ultimate Ignorance, the Question and the Answer are equally unnecessary. What began will come to an end. What is Wonderful is not threatened. The Process of the Totality of Existence is Transcendental and Eternal. Only a fraction of the Whole can pass away in any moment, since only a fraction of the Whole appears in any moment. Therefore, the Heart Itself is always already Full of Wonder and Love. "I" is the body-mind, the fraction of the Whole that is now appearing and will soon disappear. "I" must be surrendered to the Heart, to the Whole, which is Infinity, Wonder, and Love.
Adi Da Samraj
Remember, truth cannot be conquered. One has to surrender to truth, one has to be conquered by truth.
Osho
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.
Eckhart Tolle
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.
Dhyani Ywahoo
No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart you will see Him everywhere.
Swami Sivananda
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
Diana Cooper
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
Georges Gurdjieff
Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Ram Dass
In danger there is great power.
Agnes Whistling Elk
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.
Agnes Whistling Elk
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
Ram Dass
No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.
Agnes Whistling Elk
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
Ram Dass
No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi
You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others.
Torkom Saraydarian
When we align our thoughts emotions and actions with the highest part of ourselves we are filled with enthusiasm purpose and meaning. . . . We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power.
Gary Zukav
It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.
David Spangler
Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
Georges Gurdjieff
Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
Ram Dass
United Nations needs reform to connect with world community beyond the boundary of high-level bureaucrats and politicians through cyberspace and other means to put itself at the heart of worldwide public needs, hopes, and fears.
Amit Ray
Many people have wonderful dreams, but die without realizing them. It is because they do not know how to get a hold of a dream and work with it to make it happen. Everything happens by laws." (From the Secrets To Divine Manifestations by Alain Yaovi M. Dagba
Alain Yaovi M. Dagba
The divine pattern is your life purpose. It is a story about your divine self and it is written within—your heart
Alain Yaovi M. Dagba
So if you are confused, please remember – don’t help anybody, because your help is going to be poisonous. If you are confused don’t be occupied with others, because you are simply creating trouble, your disease will become infectious. Don’t give advice to anyone, and if you have a little clarity of thought, don’t take advice from someone who is confused. Remain alert, because confused people always like to give advice. And they give it free of charge, they give it very generously!
Osho
I would like Epicurus and Buddha to become one.
Osho
Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering—they never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.
Osho
Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.
Osho
Boredom is a flight from what is important. Like workaholism and perfectionism, it is a way of distracting yourself from inner experiences. It occurs when you look outward and do not find anything to engage your attention. Instead of feeling your emotions - becoming aware of the functioning of your energy system - you become bored. Boredom ... is a flight from your higher potential. It is fear of the transformation that wants to occur, and will occur in you, when you explore your emotions. It is your resistance to spiritual growth.
Gary Zukav
Focus your energy on peace, bliss, and beauty. Life will be blissful and the world will be peaceful.
Amit Ray
In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with so many situations that demonstrate that this is so.
Osho
you feel what else is there to do in life apart from living? And even that is out of your control; it depends on an infinite number of factors. Everything is in your unconscious mind. Why sex desire arose in you, why you raised a family, how greed and anger entered you, why you were dishonest, why you accumulated wealth, why you made enemies – you have no idea! You are just like a puppet, whose strings are being pulled by someone else. You imagine you are dancing, but in fact it is someone else who is making you dance.Look closely at your life and you will find that you are nothing more than a puppet. How can anything real happen in the life of a man who is not his own master, but merely a puppet?
Osho
Always remember that you are the observer and not the doer. Do not take life to be anything more than acting. Don’t identify yourself too much with the action.Whether you are a wife or husband, a businessman or client, don’t get too involved. Don’t lose yourself in it, for you are simply playing a role in the play. Keep outside of it, and within yourself. These are all necessary parts of life. You must go to work, it is necessary. The play is delightful if you see it as play, but it is fatal if you take it to be life. There is no reason so disrupt your life. You have to play the part that life has given you.
Osho
You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.
Osho
They happen only when you are distant,aloof. They happen, they cannot be brought. They happen you cannot force them to happen. They are spontaneous happenings.
Osho
But life itself is without use. What is the purpose of it? Where are you going? What is the result? No purpose, no result, no goal. Life is a constant ecstasy, moment to moment you can enjoy it but if you start thinking of results you miss enjoying it, your roots are uprooted, you are no longer in it, you have become an outsider. And then you will ask for the meaning, for the purpose.
Osho
This should be one of the basic attitudes—not to think about what the other is doing. That is his life. If he decides to live it that way, that is his business. Who are you even to have an opinion about it? Even to have an opinion means that you are ready to interfere, you have already interfered.
Osho
Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.
Miguel Ruiz
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
Swami Vivekananda
No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart.
Osho
Life is a balance between emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) and intelligence quotient (IQ).
Amit Ray
Yoga talks about cat-pose, dog-pose, camel-pose, monkey-pose, bird-pose etc. Why there are so many animal poses? Animals release their emotions and tensions by movements based on their body sensations. But our amygdala in the brain is carrying the “fight or flight response”; it has forgotten the art of releasing the tensions. As human beings, when we are aware about the sensations, we can release that by aware, slow movements. If you do not give movements to the body parts, energy will be stuck and blood circulation will be disturbed. Gradually, that creates chronic physical and mental health problems.
Amit Ray
It's very simple. Keep your body as clean as possible, your mind as clear as possible. That's all you need. And do it in anyway you can, in your own way. It doesn't matter. That's why I say 'peaceful body, peaceful mind'. And then you'll be useful. You don't have to become a useful person. You will be useful.
Swami Satchidananda
Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. The Yogi renounces his experiences, because his philosophy is that the whole Nature, although it is for the experience of the soul, at last brings him to know that he is not in Nature, but eternally separate from Nature. The Jnâni (philosopher) renounces everything, because his philosophy is that Nature never existed, neither in the past, nor present, nor will It in the future.
Swami Vivekananda
Drinking tea is as sacred as doing yoga. Sleeping silently, relaxed, is as sacred as prayer. Looking at a tree, talking to a friend, walking early in the morning, working in the factory or in the office, is as holy as anything else. This is the understanding that is needed for Tao to happen.
Osho
The heart of a yogi should always bear good-will and thoughts that benefit others.
Amit Ray
Planting a tree is the easiest way to align yourself with the cosmic rhythm.
Amit Ray
Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.
Amit Ray
Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.
Osho
Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.
Amit Ray
True beauty can only be found in the true Self.
Ka Chinery
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
Eckhart Tolle
Yoga is establishing an harmonious connection to your inner world with outer world.
Amit Ray
Understand this first and foremost that you are the center of your existence; nobody else is responsible. No matter how burdensome it feels, but you alone are responsible. If you accept this truth all sorrow will soon disappear. Because once it is clear that I am making this game, how long will it take you to destroy it?
Osho
Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn.
Lama Surya Das
We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that which we are accustomed to call our religious faith. But local customs are infinite and contradictory. Which are we to obey, and which not to obey? The Brāhmin of Southern India, for instance, would shrink in horror at the sight of another Brahmin eating meat; a Brahmin in the North thinks it a most glorious and holy thing to do—he kills goats by the hundred in sacrifice. If you put forward your custom, they are equally ready with theirs. Various are the customs all over India, but they are local. The greatest mistake made is that ignorant people always think that this local custom is the essence of our religion.
Swami Vivekananda