Inspirational Quotes IV

The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.
-Osho

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat
match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
-Joseph Campbell

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust

There is in all visible things...a hidden wholeness.
-Thomas Merton

One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.
-Mother Meera

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
-e.e. cummings

The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.
-Meher Baba

Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
-Lao Tzu

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
-Oliver Wendall Holmes

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-Richard Bach

Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.
-Gary Zukav

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable...
-Osho

The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
-ee cummings

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "look under foot."
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
-John Burroughs

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

material force, that thoughts rule the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
-Chuang Tzu

Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision.
Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.
-Rumi

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
-Hafiz

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
-Carl Jung

"...Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
-Osho

For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows.
-Mother Meera

There is nothing either bad or good, but thinking makes it so.
-William Shakespeare

Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.
-Eckhart Tolle

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
-Sir Cecil Beaton

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.
-Mary Brave Bird

It is easy to live for others. Everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wanderer, your footsteps are
the road, and nothing more;
wanderer, there is no road,
the road is made by walking.
By walking one makes the road,
and upon glancing behind
one sees the path. . .
-Antonio Machado

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self.
The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can
say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained.
-Marcus Aurelius

The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things.
-Buddha

Our Task must be to free ourselves...
by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures,
the whole of nature, and its beauty.
-Albert Einstein

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
-Horace

Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

The place to improve the world
is first in one's own heart and head
and hands.
-Robert M. Persig

May the outward and inward man be at one.
-Socrates

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.
The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.
Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade,
But do not be disheartened,
The source they come from is eternal, growing,
Branching out, giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep?
The source is within you
And this whole world is springing up from it.
-Rumi

You don't get harmony when everybody sings
the same note.
-Doug Floyd

What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn't stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I'm alone, it continues to play.
-Anthony de Mello

The only journey is the one within.
-Rainer Maria Rilke