Divine Messages - 245 : Quotes from Speaking Tree

Some quotes from Speaking Tree.

·       Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful - Rajuda

·       The separate self can never discover the truth–in the end, the truth just awakens to itself through you -Stephan Bodian

·       Courage is grace under pressure - Ernest Hemingway

·       If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion - The XIV Dalai Lama

·       Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures - The XIV Dalai Lama

·       Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else... you are the one getting burned - Zen Proverb

·       Jesus spoke to them, saying "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." - John 8.12

·       Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either - Helen Keller

·       Suffering: the sense that things should be different than they are – Wayne Liquorman

·       Master your vagabond thoughts, try to raise yourself above the fluctuations of life, and you will see all your anxiety disappear concerning the place propitious for sadhana - Anandamayi Ma

·       Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns - Author Unknown

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Divine Messages - 244 : Quotes from Speaking Tree

Some quotes from Speaking Tree.

·       A powerful man will ask the advice of a weak man to prove to himself that he has no need of advice - Thomas M Easley

·       Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. - Mark Twain

·       May the Goddess of culture … may the Goddess of wisdom in company with men, ordinary and intellectual, may the fire divine, and may the Goddess of divine speech with masters of language come to bless us and enshrine our hearts.- Rig Veda

·       Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good. We oft might win, by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare

·       The gap between your expectations and reality is your suffering - John St. Augustine

·       The only devils in this world are those running around inside our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought – Gandhi

·       Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person’s freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results. - Hu Shih

·       Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty - Socrates

·       Things don't change, only the way you look at them - Carlos Castaneda

·       We are today trying to master every kind of knowledge but are unable to discover our own true nature - Sathya Sai Baba

·       First you should know how is inside you, then the same god will show you who is inside others - Ramana Maharishi

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Divine Messages - 243 : Quotes from Speaking Tree

Some quotes from Speaking Tree.

·       The more we give love, the greater our capacity to do so - David R. Hawkins

·       Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude. God's gratitude - Sri Chinmoy

·       When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at, change - Wayne Dyer

·       People are born for different tasks, but in order to survive every one requires the same nourishment; inner peace - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

·       What is the use of a house if you don't have a decent planet to put it on? - Henry D Thoreau

·       The dog and the flea are not made equal by having the dog’s blood in common - Thomas M Easley

·       Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time - Voltaire

·       If you judge people, you have no time to love them - Mother Teresa

·       If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought - Peace Pilgrim

·       Anger is a demon. Anger leads us to commit all other sins. In the case of Vishwamitra, 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. - Satya Sai Baba

·       The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed - Michael Phillips

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Divine Messages - 242 : Words of Wisdom by Dada J P Vaswani.

Some words of wisdom by Dada J P Vaswani.

• In every situation, do the very best you can and leave the rest to God.
• While living one's life according to God's Will, one has nothing to lose.
• To the person who is in love, every winter becomes a spring and the world becomes a garden of God
• How true it is that wherever there is love of God, there, also, is love of His suffering children!
• Perfection is not to be created through human efforts. Perfection already is: it is only to be seen.
• The age we live in is an age of ignorance and misunderstanding. Lord, grant me an understanding heart!
• Until man is prepared to change himself, all other change is futile!
• If I have made one human being happier, one creature more comfortable, one heart more hopeful, my day has not been wasted!
• Life's richest treasure is a loving heart that is at peace with all.
• Hold and behold all with mercy
• When you are face to face with difficulty, you are up against a discovery!

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Divine Messages - 241 : Quotes from Speaking Tree

Some quotes from Speaking Tree by Gautam Buddha.

·       This Aryan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation

·       On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property

·       You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up

·       Mere Suffering exists, No sufferer is found, The deed Is, but No doer of the deed is found, Nirvana is, but not the man that enters it, The path is, but no traveller on it is

·       Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared

·       We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world

·       You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger

·       Every human being is the author of his own health or disease

·       The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly

·       Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed

·       A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

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Divine Messages - 240 : Quotes from Speaking Tree

Some quotes from Speaking Tree by Swami Vivekananda.

·       The will is not free — it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect but — there is something behind the will which is free.

·       The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets

·       My nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love's sake. I cannot trade in love.'

·       There is only one sin. That is weakness.... The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game

·       If superstition enters, the brain is gone

·       Let all your nerves vibrate through the backbone of your religion

·       That which tends to increase the divinity in you is virtue, and that which tends to increase brutality in you is vice

·       Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat

·       We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know have to act.

·       FEEL like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God

·       Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage

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Divine Messages - 239 : Quotes from Speaking Tree

Some quotes from Speaking Tree.

·       Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude. God's gratitude - Sri Chinmoy

·       Your duty is to BE and not be this or that - Ramana Maharshi

·       May no living creatures, not even insects,/ Be bound unto samsaric life; nay, not one of them; But may I be empowered to save them all - Milarepa

·       Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service - Henry Ford

·       Travel light on your journey in life. Your desires and expectations are heavy baggage which slow you down and thwart your progress. Let them go - Swami Chidanand Saraswati

·       At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities - Jean Houston

·       Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does - Josh Billings

·       People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have - Anne Celestial

·       A powerful man will ask the advice of a weak man to prove to himself that he has no need of advice - Thomas M Easley

·       "I am not God...just a small human trying to purify my being...I write my mind and heart with love and concern ....pure simple thoughts for the good souls reading them...pardon any mistakes..."blessings - Sai Ram

·       How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli

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