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Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
- Emily Dickinson [1]
The mystery of death holds both fear and fascination. On the one hand we fear death - death of the body and death of the ego; to some, death is the extinction of all that we hold dear in the world.
But, if we live not only for worldly possessions, we come to feel that maybe there is more to life than this physical being. The Seers and mystics proclaim that death is but a transition: a chance for renewal and rebirth. Death is an end for the body; but for the soul, death is merely the process of discarding its worn-out garment and moving to something higher.
Death is not the end
Death can never be the end.
Death is the road.
Life is the traveller.
The Soul is the Guide
- Sri Chinmoy
"They will come back—come back again, as long as the red Earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls ?"
- Rudyard Kipling
References
[1] Because I could not stop for death
[2] Quotes on Death
[3] The Sack of the Gods R.Kipling
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Luke:
"I can’t believe it. "
Yoda:
"That is why you fail.”
Anne Frank:
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death."
Our human mind says,
"Silence is emptiness; it is sheer emptiness and nothingness."
But our aspiring heart knows that silence
is the fulness and plenitude
of our Eternity's Height and Infinity's Light. (1)
By: Sri Chinmoy
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
~ Pablo Casals
”Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!”
~Albert Einstein
"To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family. "
~ Buddha
Quotes from Swami Atmachaithanya
Start your day with love
Spend your day with love
Love everyone you meet
Show love and compassion to all
Love is the sole purpose of your being
And is the key to the inner vision of God.
God is always with us
But we are not always with God
That is why we suffer.
By: Swami Atmachaithanya
From: Atmachaithanya.org
Via: Inspirations and Creative Thoughts - blog of Sadiq
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Video footage of Sri Ramana Maharshi
"Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy
because nearly all do not know the true Self.
Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone.
All else is fleeting.
To know one's Self
is to be blissful always."
"Happiness is your nature.
It is not wrong to desire it.
What is wrong is seeking it outside
when it is inside. "
- Ramana Maharshi
"When God fulfils your desire, you are all gratitude. When God does not fulfil your desire, if you can become all gratitude to Him, then God Himself is bound to come to you, not only to replace and fulfil your desire, but to give you what He has and what He is: Infinitude."
Thought of the Day by Sanjaya Spettigue.
In this episode of "Thought Of The Day", Sanjaya Spettigue reflects on the legacy and contribution of George Harrison, one of the Beatles, whose genuine interest in Eastern philosophy influenced a whole generation.
- Listen Now
- Thought of the Day is hosted at Radio Sri Chinmoy
Quotes on Transformation
"Neither an individual effort nor an individual abnegation can bring about the transformation of your consciousness.
This transformation is possible only by the descent of a Higher Light. "
"Both the descent of Truth into the lower nature and the ascent of the lower nature into the higher Truth are capable of solving the problem of problems, the illumination of human consciousness. They are equally effective and have an equal speed. "
"Be Universal in your love.
You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being. "
Quotes By: Sri Chinmoy
From: Excerpt from Eternity's Breath by Sri Chinmoy.
Photo by Kamalika Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries
Quotes by R.W. Emerson
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
" What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. "
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. "
"Is it so bad to be misunderstood?
Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,
and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh."
By:Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The first thing to do in the sadhana is to get a settled peace and silence in the mind.
Otherwise you may have experiences, but nothing will be permanent.
It is in the silent mind that the true consciousness can be built."
"When the mind is silent there is peace and in the peace all things that are divine can come.
When there is not the mind, there is the Self which is greater than the mind."
By: Sri Aurobindo
View: Biography of Sri Aurobindo
From: Search for light.org
"Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system. Try to understand people who cross you, and whenever anybody tries to inflame you, mentally say: “I am too comfortable to be angry. I don’t want to be sick with anger.”
Quotes from Inner peace
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"Patience is a tree that grows within us and produces not one fruit, but four fruits: wisdom, joy, peace and victory. Patience requires energy as well as the co-operation of the body, the vital and the mind. Without patience, the mind works automatically, like a machine. It moves by compulsion, not by choice. It is restless; it darts here and there. The body may be inert, but the mind is constantly roaming. There can be no peace without patience."
By: Sri Chinmoy
From: Illumination Fruits
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