“Life teaches you that others rarely understand you.”
“Pursuit of pleasures leaves no time and energy to pursue Truth.”
“Life would be simpler and happier if we did not care to impress others.”
“Poverty should be defined as excess of wants over our capacity to fulfill them.”
“People think of and adore God only in relation to their concerns.”
“How stupid of people to give birth to children when they themselves have not figured out the meaning of life.”
“We exchange our freedom for a few paltry pleasures.”
“If the mind comes to rest, you will find what you are looking for.”
“To keep the body alive is all too easy. That we want to keep the mind also alive is the root cause of all our problems.”
“God is clever. He made us so puny and powerless that we couldn’t but kneel before him and sing His praises. He really did not dare to make us wiser and more powerful lest we care not for Him. Even God can be on an ego trip, tut, tut!”
“Science is NOT truth. It only explains a dream called the world.”
“One gets tired of life when one hits sixty.”
“Society makes life bearable and thereby does a great disservice to the individual.”
“The urge to live is not our own but one implanted in us.”
“The urge to live is inextricably linked with the pain of hunger and fasting.”
“Pleasure lulls us into thinking that life is worthwhile after all.”
“Life has no value in and of itself.”
“Boredom and tiredness stem from thinking that there is more to life than there is in actuality.”
“We constantly make the mistake of measuring life by the goals of youth.”
“Unless you realize that it’s ok to be sad, you will continue to suffer.”
“If you were the only (wo)man on earth — a Robinson Crusoe without any Man Friday — would you still want to live, and would you live differently from the way you live now?”
“Thoughts correspond to the world. What does silence/stillness of thoughts correspond to?”
“You cannot be a true philosopher and not be tired of life.”
“Keep quiet and unerring Karma will do the rest on your behalf.”
“By all means take them to the court or take to the streets, but without any rancour in your heart and as a means of seeking justice.”
“God is shy to go around naked. So s/he puts on the clothes of body and mind.”
“Truly speaking though, we can love the ‘other’ only when we realize they are only a reflection of ourselves. After all, all of us are God in various disguises. I am God in disguise. You are God in a different disguise.”
“The purpose of life is to become that person who cannot help but love everyone.”
“True love puts an end to desire.”
“True love is possible only when you truly understand that everyone and everything in this world is nothing but a form of God.”
“True love is a state of Being.”
“True love is silence.”
“True love is true peace.”
“True love is beyond heaven and hell.”
“True love comes into being when you know there are no ‘others’.”
“True love is an absence of the ego.”
“True love is true happiness.”
“True love is God.”
“Love ain’t enough. Ask the caveman. You need fire and wheel also.”
“It is both sad and liberating to realize that one has no goal in life except to keep the body alive and as far as possible, also healthy.”
“It is all in the mind, folks. There is nothing ‘external’.”
“Most people cannot think about things that have no relation to their own self-interest.”
“Since I did not create this body-mind, how can I be responsible for what it does?”
“Most of our goals and dreams are tied to enhancing our esteem in the eyes of others.”
“Every time you are absolutely silent, the world ends, as in deep sleep. It begins again when you start thinking anew.”
“Where does your anger go when you realize that the boat which crashed against yours is empty?”
“To think you should meditate to get somewhere, is a mistake.”
“All meditation ends in silence. So, why not just be silent?”
“Happiness is to love everyone without any expectation whatsoever.”
“Men reveal their true character when they occupy positions of power.”
“This world is God’s way of playing hide-and-seek with us.”
“Take the slightest interest in the world, and you are caught in Maya.”
“All those who are desperate to get to heaven will end up in hell.”
“To understand life, understand yourself first.”
“Most people try to understand life rather than themselves.”
“If we did not care for pleasure, we would not care for money.”
“Pleasure can lead to temporary happiness but never to lasting peace.
“The interest in pleasure is the cause of our unhappiness.”
“S/He who wants nothing from life has no enemies.”
“Enlightenment does not come through methods, techniques, and practices but solely through right understanding.”
“I am a creation of God, as are you wherever you are on earth. So, we are all members of one family, God’s family.”
“The donkey is not tied to the tree. But it thinks it is. Therein lies the problem.”
“A little money goes a long way.”
“Blessed is S/He who finds it more difficult to hate than to love.”
“Words are an inadequate medium to express love.”
“Sometimes we suffer not because we do not get love but because we do not know how to receive it.”
“Most people do not realize that life is funny.”
“Too much love often leads too much suffering.”
“To discover happiness in the stillness of the mind is the goal of life.”
“This world is nothing but God as S/He appears to our five senses.”
“My fervent wish is to not exist at all and yet I find in myself the contradictory need for companionship of my fellow humans.”
“Those who succeed in life should not gloat over it because their success is only because God created others less able than them.”
“It takes two fools for a love story to happen.”
“Love is the only way out of maya.”
“The wisest person on this earth is one who loves everyone. And, we are so foolish that we cannot even love one person fully.”
“We are being constantly misguided by our thoughts.”
“All emotions are a response to a life situation that in reality is just a situation you are imagining.”
“Maya binds you by making you believe that there is more to life than there is, actually speaking.”
“Keeping quiet is an art not many are good at.”
“The feeling that more happiness awaits you in life is the ultimate illusion.”
“Hoping for and anticipating a better future is the refuge of many.”
“To let go of the desire for love, riches, comforts, good health, and fame is the way out of maya.”
“Guru’s words are the antivirus for the code running our mind.”
“Let others define us in a hundred ways. We should just smile, knowing that we are undefinable.”
“Don’t worry. Sometimes, even I don’t understand myself.”
“No mind, no world, no God.”
“This world is not a burden for one who understands that it being run solely by God.”
“Stillness is better than action.”
“If there were no life on earth or elsewhere, who would be there to complain?”
“I keep talking. Hardly anyone understands.”
“Desire is poison. Pleasure is poison. The thirst for being alive is poison.”
“The Consciousness that you are, is God. The body-mind is just a name-and-form of that Consciousness just like pot is just a name-and-form of clay.”
“We are born into the physical world that is governed by laws that constrain us. We are born with a body that is governed by genes that constrain us. We are born with a mind that is governed by its own tendencies that constrain us. We are born into a society that is governed by traditions and laws that constrain us. Our individuality and personality are not our own but one constrained, moulded and shaped by these four forces acting on us and making us who we are. Thus, our thoughts are not our own, our choices and actions are not our own. We are not who we think we are. Who are we then? Find out if you can through deeper analysis and reflection.”
“My advice to myself and others: Do not try to perfect the body and mind. The body and mind are not the real you. And, what you are in reality is perfection itself – namely, Consciousness. Try to understand why that is indeed the case.”
“Love admixed with desire, sexual or otherwise, is the only kind of love that we humans seem capable of.”
“Life is overrated.”
“Life is a pain.”
“Life is a cruel joke played on us by God.”
“Life is merely the obsessive pursuit of desires fulfillment.”
“I keep learning more from women than I have ever learnt from any men, except perhaps for some writers and philosophers.”
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