Quotes

Quotes on Happiness by Sri Chinmoy

Tejvan Pettinger — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:58:06

"We want happiness and we need happiness. In this life of ours there are many things that we want but actually do not need. But when it is a matter of happiness, we not only want it but we also need it. There is no happiness in mere seeing. There is no happiness in mere feeling. There is no happiness in mere achieving. Happiness can be found only in our conscious surrender to God's Will."

Sri Chinmoy

Quotes on Aum

Tejvan Pettinger — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:28:35

"AUM is the soundless sound. It is the vibration of the Supreme. It is called the Seed-Sound of the Universe, for with this sound, the Supreme set into motion the first vibration of His creation. The teeming universe is sustained perpetually by the creative vibration of the Divine AUM. "

By: Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from Eternity's Breath by Sri Chinmoy. at Sri Chinmoy Library

Quote Immortality

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:29:31

"He who does not aspire thinks that Immortality is an impossibility. He who aspires feels that immortality is a sure possibility. He who has realised God knows that immortality is an absolute reality."

Sri Chinmoy

Quote on criticism

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:23:34

" If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

Abraham Lincoln

Quote "Man was made for Immortality"

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:21:39

"Surely God would not have created such a being as man . . . to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."

Abraham Lincoln

Quote on Others point of view

Tejvan Pettinger — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:19:22

"The most distinctive mark of a cultured mind is the ability to take another's point of view; to put one's self in another's place, and see life and its problems from a point of view different from one's own. To be willing to test a new idea; to be able to live on the edge of difference in all matters intellectually; to examine without heat the burning question of the day; to have imaginative sympathy, openness and flexibility of mind, steadiness and poise of feeling, cool calmness of judgment, is to have culture."

1. 1. 1. Fairchild

Doubt Ourselves

Tejvan Pettinger — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:06:40

"When we doubt others, in the outer world we may not lose anything. When we doubt God, in the outer world we may not lose anything. But when we doubt ourselves, we lose everything. We lose in the outer world and we lose in the inner world as well."

Sri Chinmoy

Quote - what is spirituality

Tejvan Pettinger — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:03:21

"In my view, spirituality can never mean the rejection of life or the total negation of life. To me, spirituality means the true acceptance of life. We have to accept life as it is now. But we must not be satisfied with this life, we cannot be satisfied with this life as such. It is our bounden duty to change the face of the world. But how can we do it? We can do it only when we ourselves are changed within and without. "

Sri Chinmoy

Quote Ecstasy Within

Tejvan Pettinger — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:49:41

"O Infinite, in the heart of the finite You are playing Your own melodies. In me is Your Revelation and Manifestation. Therefore ecstasy within, ecstasy without."

Rabindranath Tagore

Time

Tejvan Pettinger — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:46:23

"Time is that which man always tries to kill, but which ends in killing him."

Herbert Spencer

When Righteousness declines

Tejvan Pettinger — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:44:08

"Whenever righteousness declines and unrighteousness prevails, I embody Myself, O Arjuna. To protect the good, to destroy the wicked and to establish dharma [the code of life], I come into being from age to age."

Sri Krishna from Bhagavad Gita

Quote - Devouring Time

Tejvan Pettinger — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:41:56

"I am the mighty world devouring Time."

Bhagavad Gita

Quote on Relativity

Tejvan Pettinger — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:37:54

"When we sit with a nice girl for two hours, we think it is only for a minute. When we sit on a hot stove for a minute, we think it is for two hours. And that is relativity."

Albert Einstein