Quotes Tagged "love"

The tree of knowledge is based on pleasure and pain; the ultimate reduction. From here we get joy and sorrow, the two primary emotions. Love is a form of joy and hate, a form of sorrow, but all spring from the tree of pleasure and pain, which all 'know.

Love and hate are opposite sides of the same coin, you know — both passions. You can flip from one to the other — but not to indifference

One knows what being in love is like and it is a very terrible thing.

They acknowledge that the realities closest to us - the rhythms of our lives, the people we love most - are shaped by forces beyond the edges of our sight.

The supreme bliss of this divine love is felt within the soul that is pure and receptive to the sanctity of God’s boundless love. It kindles the innermost self of devotees. You have two forms, one of brilliant splendor and the other of great peace, fit for contemplation. You are the gracious protector of the knowledge.

Knowledge of the world is as irrelevant in art as it is in a love affair.

Knowledge of the world is as irrelevant in art as it is in a love affair.

Do advise me,' he urged, 'as to how I can remove the illusions of the mind and free it from the turmoil to which it is always subjected, and realise God. I am simply caught up in the attachment to wife, house, money and property.' 'You have diagnosed,' Ramdas replied, 'the disease aright and also have a clear understanding of the remedy for it. Know in the first place that the God you seek is within yourself. He is the life and soul of the universe and to attain Him is the supreme purpose of life. Evil and sorrow are due to your belief that you are separate from this universal Truth. The ego has set up this wall of separation. Have a strong and intense longing to realise Him, that is, to know that your life is one with the life of the universe. Then surrender up the ego by constant identification with Him through prayer, meditation and performance of all action without desiring their fruit. As you progress on this path, which is the path of devotion, knowledge and self-surrender, your attachment to the unrealities of life will slacken, and the illusions of the mind will be dispelled. Now your heart will be filled with divine love, and your vision purified and equalised, and your actions will become the spontaneous outflow of your immortal being, yielding you the experience of true joy and peace. This is the culmination of human endeavour and fulfilment of the purpose of life.

See, their words endure in books, Open, read them, copy their knowledge, He who is taught becomes skilled. Don’t be evil, kindness is good, Make your memorial last through love of you. Increase the [people], befriend the town,..

Nessuna cosa si può amare nè odiare, se prima no si ha cognition di quella. (No thing you can love or hate, if you don't know it before.)

I believe in old age; to work and to grow old: this is what life expects of us. And then one day to be old and still be quite far from understanding everything - no, but to begin, but to love, but to suspect, but to be connected to what is remote and inexpressible, all the way up into the stars. (Letters on Life)

All knowledge is vain, except where there be work; and all work is empty, except where there be love.

Om the sound of God, Divinity and lord Sun and Lord fortune also vibration. Om is the entire Universe whatever we can see, touch, hear and feel is Om. It is all that is within our soul and all that is beyond our intellect. It is the energy of our very existence. Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is continuously on the background of everything that exists.

I build what I wish to have in the mind of brilliance. It's a determination of conscious thought. If it's riches I envision, riches shall be my lot. If I envision love then like Adam, I make my request to the One above. Eve is created through his image and likeness, love is truly lifes purpose for what more can catch a womans attention but a diamond? Diamond is pure carbon, deposited drops of sunlight. A diamond is the last and highest of Gods mineral formation, as a woman is the last and highest of Gods creation.

To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.

They say God chooses the weak & foolish things to confound the wise. Don't let these weak, foolish men sell you a dream, they're good at telling lies.

Shreeom Surye Shiva's work in founding Vedic Vedantic science is very much steeped in that ancient tradition, but his work is also very much imbued with the spirit of modern science and shares its commitment to direct experience and empirical testing as the foundation and criteria of all knowledge. For this reason, and other reasons to be considered below, it is also appropriately called a science. The name “Vedic Science” thus indicates both the ancient traditional origins of this body of knowledge and the modern commitment to experience, system, testability, and the demand that knowledge be useful in improving the quality of human life. The founders of the truth love of living foundation and World Pashupatinath foundation is based on ancient Vedic tradition discovered the capability of the human mind to settle into a state of deep silence while remaining awake, and therein to experience a completely unified, simple, and unbounded state of awareness, called pure consciousness, which is quite distinct from our ordinary waking, sleeping, or dreaming states of consciousness. In that deep silence, they discovered the capability of the mind to become identified with a boundless, all-pervading, unified field that is experienced as an eternal continuum underlying all existence.

Life is a gift. It is to be shared. It should be experienced wisely and above all it should be observed consciously.

We are blessed with the gift of life. Now is the time to actively become aware of this precious endowment.

Our true essence originates in the manifestation of life. ‘I am who I am’ (ongoing). It is essential that we awaken to the potential within this statement. We determine the content of our existence through active awareness.