Some words of wisdom by Rabindranath Tagore

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will
prevent you from seeing the stars.

The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is
imperfection.… But the real question we ought to ask is: Is this
imperfection the final truth; is evil absolute and ultimate?

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the
limits of things, which can never become unlimited, and to reach the
infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in

other words, in their relation to one to whom they appear. This is art,
the truth of which is not in substance or logic, but in _expression.
Abstract truth may belong to science and metaphysics; but the world of
reality belongs to art.

There are men whose idea of life is tactic, who long for its
continuation after death only because of their wish for permanence and
not perfection; they love to imagine that the things to which they are
accustomed will persist forever. They completely identify themselves in
their minds with their fixed surroundings and with whatever they have
gathered, and to have to leave these is death for them. They forget that
the true meaning of living is outliving, it is ever growing out of
itself…

Nature and Spirituality

Natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of
any individual or society.
Whenever we destroy beauty, or whenever we substitute something man-
made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have
retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.
Rachel Carson

10 Quotations by Einstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms
of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior

spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
with our frail and feeble mind.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

"Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941 \The most

beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of
all true art Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course,
powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein,
"Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert EinsteinNothing
will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life
on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein

10 Quotationis by Soren Kierkgaard, the founder of Existentialism

Man is fascinated by a picture whose meaning, beauty, colour and shades

correspond to his stage of intellectual and spiritual evolution at that
particular time. But the most enduring pictures are the ones which have
the most ancient origin in the collective unconscious.

As Soren Kiergaard, the founder of existenialism, says:

"Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward'.

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as

incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in
and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes
of their childhood. "
"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. "
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change
the nature of the one who prays."
"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only
great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is
exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose
thoughts in embryo."

"The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses

into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only
fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a
feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining
in bed."

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule
begins."
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose
oneself."

"When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself,
"It is talking to me, and about me."
"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new
stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall
into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have
seen something."

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in

philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

FRANCIS BACON,

Essays

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a

citizen of the world.

FRANCIS BACON, Essays

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and

take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and
consider.

Bacon

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. Bacon

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be
supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Sir Francis Bacon

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most
agreeable.

Bacon

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly

explored, it dispels it. Bacon
Quotations on Transformation
"The mind, intellect, ego, ether, air, fire, water, and earth are the
eightfold transformation of My nature."
Bhagavad Gita

"Only through Love transformation is possible" Hindu sage

"The purpose of enlightenment in our time is not just to transcend the

world, but to transform the world. How do we transform it? Through the
evolution of our own consciousness. We have to realise that this process
completely depends on us, on individuals who are willing to push the
edge of the possible. "
Andrew Cohen

"Any revolution has to start with the transformation of the individual,

otherwise individuals are corrupted by the power they get if their
revolution succeeds."
Wes Nisker
"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own
self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of
consciousness. "
Joseph Campbell
"Transformation literally means going beyond your form."
Wayne Dyer

Feodor Dostoevsky's quotes

"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man,
don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of
weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get
better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's
a good man."

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when

the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
'Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are
fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."

"Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea."

"I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him — in
his own image and likeness". "Just as man created God, then?"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Quotes on/about faith

"Kindness is the mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not
faith."
Prophet Muhammad

"Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly

in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves. Faith
is nothing but a living, wide-awake consciousness of God within."
M K Gandhi

"Man cannot live without an enduring faith in something

indestructible within him."
Franz Kafka
"The type of human being who relies on his personal effort at one
stage, may at a later stage come to realise that such effort as is
made is truly the effort of the totality of functioning and not that
of any illusory individual doer."
Indian philosopher

Grasping the Universe

"Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law
within me."
Immanuel Kant

"Reality is light... Change your consciousness; open your eyes... In

every atom of space you will see The twinkle of God's light and
laughter."
An Indian saint
"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like
a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the
ceilings with books in many different tongues.

The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does
not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which
they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the
arrangement of the books — a mysterious order which it does not
comprehend, but only dimly suspects."
Albert Einstein

"The butterfly paused in flight to think: No change could take place

without drawing from the only source of energy that the entire
universe drew from... All change had to draw from constancy.

If it were not for the Constant, there would be no changes. And if

it were not for changes, one wouldn't even think of the Constant."
Anonymous
Find yourself
"Withdraw unto yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself
beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made
beautiful: he cuts away here, he smooths there, he makes this line
lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon him
work."
Plotinus (the great follower of Platonism,the Plato's philosophy)
"The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere
of action."
Swami Prabhavananda

"This above all; to thine own self be true,/ And it must follow, as the
night the day,/ Thou canst not then be false to any man."
William Shakespeare

ANGER DESTROYS REASON

"He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is
strong who witholdeth himself from anger."
Prophet Muhammad

"Do not to others

what ye do not wish
Done to yourself; and wish for others too
What ye desire and long for, for yourself This is the whole of
dharma heed it well."
Veda Vyasa,the sage
The Mahabharata

"Delusion arises from anger. The mind is

bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is
bewildered. One falls down when reasoning
is destroyed."
Bhagavad Gita
"When anger rises, think of the consequences."
Confucius

'Ihave learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to

conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,
even so our anger
controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"To be angry about trifles is mean and childish;
to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath
is akin to the practice and
temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is
wise and glorious, is manly and divine."
Alan Watts

"Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is
proud, and abase him."
Bible

Compassion
"Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I
hope we never lose that compassion for humans as well as animals."
Arthur C Clarke

"A human being is a part of the whole, a part limi-ted in time and
space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something
separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desi-res and to affection for a few persons
nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be
compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the
foundation of integrity."
Keshavan Nair
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched,
you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any
resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin
to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how
much space."
APema Chodron

ANGER AND GRIEF

"Anger: An acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is
stored than to anything on which it is poured."
Seneca

"Anger is a demon. Anger leads us to commit all other sins. In the

case of great sage, we know that all the good he acquired by tapas
was nullified by this one evil, anger.

The merit he had accumulated through tapas undertaken for thousands

of years was all lost in a moment of anger."
A Hindu sage
"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing."
Will Rogers
"I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the
capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is
just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in
revolt long ago!

There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder,

and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change,
wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated
and grown, will be destroyed and dis-figured, after which mankind
will have to begin all over again."
Anne Frank
Just Think rightly
"A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to

him the truth, always. "
Mark Twain

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single
thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical
path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of
thoughts we wish to dominate our lives"
Henry Thoreau
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is
everything. What we think we become."
The Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we thought All that we are
founded on our thoughts and formed of our thoughts. If a man speaks
or acts with an evil thought, pain pursues him, as the wheel of the
wagon follows the ox that draws it.

"All that we are is the result of what we thought, All that we are
is founded on our thoughts and formed of our thoughts. If a man
speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness pursues him like his
own shadow that never leaves him."
Dhammapada, the Buddhist Scripture
"He who is friendly amongst the hostile, who is peaceful amongst the
violent, who is unattached amongst the attached, - him I call a sage
(Brahmana).
Sidharta,the Buddha
"Those who know wrong as wrong and right as right, such men, due to
their right views go to a blissful state."
The Buddha