Rider Barlow

Guard Your Words

• AAMIR KHAN –”Making films is not purely a business; it is an art form. It is unwise to follow Lakshmi in this business:that’sthe starting point. If you follow Saraswati, then Lakshmi will follow but if you follow Lakshmi, bothwillleave.”
• ADI GRANTH –”Our body in Kali Yuga is a field of action; As a man sows, so is his reward. Nothing by empty talk is determined: Anyone swallowing poison must die. Brother! Behold the Creator’s justice. As are a man’s actions, so is his recompense.”
• AKHENATON –”True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance… Be capable of change in that which is right and men will rely on you. Establish in yourself principles of action and see that you ever act according to them. First know that your principles are just and then act.”
• ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN –”Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity Those who clearly recognise the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”
• ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD –”What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.”
• ALGERNON SIDNEY –”If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist.”
• AMBROSE BIERCE –”Martyr: They stood before the altar and supplied – The fire themselves in which their fat was fried.”
• ANDY WARHOL –”I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”
• ANISH KAPOOR –”Red is a colour i’ve felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it’s one of those things that i grew up with and recognise at some other level.”
• ANONYMOUS –”"Corruption continues with us beyond the grave,” She said, “and then plays merry hell with all ideas.”
• ANONYMOUS –”An ethical person ought to do more than he’s required to do and less than he’s allowed to do.”
• ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER –”Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
• ASTAVAKRA GITA –”The man who is pure of heart is bound to fulfil himself in whatever way he is taught. A worldly man seeks all his life, but is still bewildered. Detached from the senses; you are free. Attached, you are bound. When this is understood, you may live as you please.”
• ATHARVA VEDA –”Peace be to earth and to airy spaces!/ Peace be to heaven, peace to the waters,/ Peace to the plants and peace to the trees!/ May all the gods grant me peace!/By this invocation of peace may peace be diffused!…/ Sothatpeace may prevail, happiness prevail!/ May everything for us be peaceful!”
• ATHARVA VEDA –”Words can conferstrength; they can drain it off. Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies; Words can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one’s words sweet, soft and pleasant.”
• B R AMBEDKAR –”Unlike a drop of water that loses its identity when ittjoins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of society alone, but for the development of the Self.”
• BARRY LONG –”There is only one truth. It is being where you are. And where you are is where your body is.”
• BENJAMIN CARDOZO –”The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.”
• BERTRAND RUSSELL –”We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.”
• BESS MYERSON –”The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.”
• BHAGAVAD GITA –”Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.”
• BHAGAVAD GITA –”Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.”
• BHAGAVAD GITA –”By this attitude of complete renunciation you shall be freed from the bondage, good and bad, of Karma. You shall be liberated, and come to Me.”
• BHAGAVAD GITA –”It is true that the mind is restless and difficult to control. But it can be overcome, Arjuna, through regular practice and detachment. Those who lack self-control will find it difficult to progress in meditation; but those who are self-controlled, striving earnestly through the right means, will attain the goal.”
• BHAGAVAD GITA –”One who has control over the mind is tranquil in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, in honour and dishonour; and is ever steadfast with the Supreme Self.”
• BHAGAVAD GITA –”To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in these any attachment to inaction.”
• BIBLE –”Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”
• BIBLE GENESIS –”While the earth remainth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
• BODHIDHARMA –”The essence of the way is detachment.”
• BYRON –”There’s music in the sighing of a reed; There’s music in the gushing of a rill; There’s music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.”
• CHARLES CALEB COLTON –”Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase.” J
• CHUCK PALAHNIUK –”If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
• CICERO –”The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.”
• CONFUCIUS –”If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.”
• CONFUCIUS –”Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
• DOUG LARSON –”To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.”
• ECKHART TOLLE –”Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant.”
• ECKHART TOLLE –”When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is notof thisworld.”
• EDGAR WATSON HOWE –”Everyone hates a martyr; it’s no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.”
• ERNEST HEMINGWAY –”I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after land what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
• FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE –”The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.”
• FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE –”Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.”
• G I GURDJIEFF –”If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.”
• GABRIEL PENDAS –”Justice delayed is justice denied.”
• GALILEO GALILEI –”All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”For, owners of their deeds or karma are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do good or evil – of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.”
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.. .To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him,”
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”The subject on which I meditate is truth. The practice to which! devote myself is the truth. The topic of my conversation is truth. My thoughts are always in truth. Lo and behold, I have become the truth.”
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through non-violent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.”
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.”
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”Words have the power to both destroy and heal, When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.”
• GAUTAMA BUDDHA –”Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
• GEORGES BERNANOS –”The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”
• GURU GOBIND SINGH –”Meeting them, all filth is washed off, bathing in the Pool of Truth, one becomes truthful, with intuitive ease.”
• GURU GRANTH SAHIB –”Gather in the wealth of the Lord, worship the true guru, and give up all your corrupt ways.”
• GURU GRANTH SAHIB –”Intuitive understanding, wisdom, cleverness, glory, beauty, pleasure, wealth and honour, all comforts, bliss, happiness and salvation, 0 Nanak, appear by chanting the name of God.,”
• GURU NANAK –”One’s true home is obtained by serving the True One. Real Truth comes by being truthful. By falsehood and greed, no place of rest is found, and no place in the world hereafter is obtained.”
• GURU NANAK –”Those who conquer their minds are beings of renunciation and detachment. They are lovingly focussed on the True One, they realise and understand themselves.”
• GURU TEGH BAHADUR SAHIB –”0 mother, I have been blessed with the wealth of God’s name. My mind is free from wandering and is established in peace. Avarice and worldly love dare not touch me and pure divine knowledge fills me. Greed and desire cannot affect me. I am totally immersed in Lord’s devotion. Fear of transmigration deserts when blessed with the jewel of Lord’s name. My mind is free of all desire and I am totally absorbed in bliss. He to whom God – the Ocean of Grace – shows mercy sings the praise of the Lord of the world.”
• GURU TEGH BAHADUR SAHIB –”He who trusts in God and makes an honest living to share with others and injures no one, nor harbours ill will against another need perform on other rituals.”
• GURU TEGH BAHADUR SAHIB –”True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.”
• HORACE –”The covetous man is ever in want.”
• I NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE –”t is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr.”
• IMAM ALI –”Good is not that your possessions, wealth and power… increase, but good is that your knowledge increases and your insight grows more powerful, and that the people are proud to serve God. For when you do good, you praise God.”
• IMMANUEL KANT –”Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.”
• INDIRA GANDHI –”One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.”
• J KRISHHAMURTI –”The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures… There is no path to truth, it must come to you. Truth can come to you only when your mind and heart are simple, clear, and there is love in your heart; not if your heart is filled with the things of the mind.”
• J KRISHNAMURTI –”The thinker is the thought. We would like it to be different so that the thinker may explain the things to himself by means of the thought.”
• J KRISHNAMURTI –”You are more important than i, more important than any teacher, any saviour, any slogan, any belief, because you can find truth only through yourself, not through another… .Human beings are more important than national and ideological boundaries.”
• JALALUDDIN RUMI –”Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
• JEANNETTE WALLS –”Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”
• JOEL BARLOW –”For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th’ invited neighbours to the husking come; A frolic scene, where work and mirth and play Unite their charms to cheer the hours away.”
• JOHN BARTH –”It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him.”
• KAHLIL GIBRAN –”Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”
• KAHLIL GIBRAN –”If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”
• KAHLIL GIBRAN –”ork is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you leave your work and sit at the gate of a temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”
• KAHLIL GIBRAN –”Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood.”
• KATHA UPANISHAD –”Know that the Self is the rider, and the body the chariot; that the intellect is the charioteer, and the mind the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; the roads they travel are the mazes of desire… When a man lacks discrimination and his mind is uncontrolled, his senses are unmanageable, like the restive horses of a charioteer. But when a man has discrimination and his mind is controlled, his senses, like the well-broken horses of a charioteer, lightly obey the rein.”
• KATHA UPANISHAD –”The intellect cannot reveal the timeless Self,’ beyond all perceptions.But those know are neither body nor mind, but the immemorial Self, the Divine, beyond right and wrong, beyond cause and effect, past and future. That’s when AUM reverberates unceasingly within.”
• LAO-TZU –”By letting it go, it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you cling, the world is beyond winning.”
• LEO TOLSTOY –”In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.”
• LORD ACTON –”Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
• M K GANDHI –”I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirtyfeet.”
• M K GANDHI –”It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver”
• M K GANDHI –”Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviours. Keep your behaviours positive because your behaviours become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.”
• M K GANDHI –”Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness.”
• M K GANDHI –”To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all Creation as oneself.”
• MAHA NARAYANA UPANISHAD –”What belongs to ‘sat’ or good people, is satyam of truthfulness.”
• MAHATMA GANDHI –”Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.”
• MAHATMA GANDHI –”Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.”
• MAITRI UPANISHAD –”Like waves in great rivers, there is no turning back of that which has previously been done.. .The soul is like a lame man, bound by fetters made of the fruit of good and evil.”
• MANMOHAN SINGH –”My government and I will work with renewed resolve for the welfare of our people.”
• MARKTWAIN –”The only way ro keep your health is to eat what you don’t want.”
• MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE –”True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people.”
• MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR –”Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
• MUHAMMAD IQBAL –”Thespiritof philosophy is one of free inquiry. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.”
• MUNDAKA UPANISHAD –”Truth is victorious, never untruth./Truth is the way; truth is the goal of life,/ Reached by sages who are free from self-will.”
• NANDAN NILEKANI –”I’ve been wrapped up in Infosys for 28 years. My only identity is Infosys. I will be going to lead a programme to give identity to every Indian. But today i am losing my identity”
• NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI –”Because Just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.”
• OFUDESAKI –”Until now eachand everyone throughout the world has been concerned only with himself. How pitiful it is! You have no mind to help others, however hard you may think it over. Henceforth, replace your mind indefinitely! I, Tsukihi, request it from you all equally If you ask what kind of mind it is, it is the mind to save single-heartedly all people of the world.”
• OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES –”Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.”
• OSCAR WILDE –”As one reads history, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
• OSCAR WILDE –”Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
• OSEPH P KENNEDY –”Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.”
• OSHO –”Live with people who are blissful, so that you can have a little whiff, a taste. You will have to live in satsang. You will have to look into the eyes of someone who has arrived, so that you can have a little taste-a little sweetness enters into your being, and you can see. A great longing arises in you, seeing that life is not all misery – that nirvana is possible.”
• OSHO –”Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful-that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect.”
• OSHO –”Real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative; to be loving, blissful, without any comparison with the other. It will not teach you that you can be happy only when you are the first.”
• OSHO –”Truth is an experience, not a belief. Truth never comes by studying about it; truth has to be encountered, truth has to be faced.”
• OSHO –”What i am trying to say to you is a kind of music i have heard. It has not been heard verbally. It is in the sound of running water. It is in the wind passing through the pine trees. It is in the song of the birds. It is in the silence of darkness. It is in the dancing rays of the sun. It is all over the place.”
• PABLO CASALS –”The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. . But why should love stop at the border?”
• PABLO PICASSO –”Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.”
• PARAMABANSA YOGANANDA –”Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realise that each thought creates accordingto its own nature… Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.”
• PATANJALI –”Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.”
• PAULO COELHO –”Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or bur ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don’t want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion.”
• PETER USTINOV –”Corruption is nature’s way of restoring our faith in democracy.”
• PLATO –”Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.”
• PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUSThe more corrupt the state, the more laws.
• QURAN –”The ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven.”
• QURAN –”Those who act kindly in this world will have kindness.”
• RABINDRANATH TAGORE –”Music fills the infinite between two souls.”
• RABINDRANATH TAGORE –”Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and i will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as i live.”
• RABINDRANTH TAGORE –”The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
• RALPH WALDO EMERSON –”Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.”
• RALPH WALDO EMERSON –”The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.”
• RAM DASS –”There’s much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.”
• RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA –”Truth is one; only it is called by different names. All people are seeking the same Truth. Everyone is going towards God. They will all realise Him if they have sincerity and longing of heart.”
• RICHARD NEEDHAM –”I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.”
• RIG VEDA –”One should be cautious not to speak anything that hurts others. Such kind of speech never helps but always brings destruction.”
• RIG VEDA –”The mind is fickle like a fast galloping horse and the only way to control it is by involving it in good actions beneficial for the welfare of all.”
• ROLLING THUNDER –”It’s very hard to do things in the right manner, but as long as we do things right, we are in tune with the Great Spirit.”
• S RADHAKRISHNAN –”When we do our work, plough or paint, sing or think (or play a sport)… if we keep thinking of fame or income or any such extraneous consideration, we will be deflected from disinterestedness. Nothing matters except the goodwill of God. Success or failure does not depend on the individual but on other factors as well.”
• SAMUEL T COLERIDGE –”I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language – religion – government – blood – identity in these makes men of one country.”
• SARASWATI NAMASTUBHYAM –”0 Goddess Saraswati, salutations to you, the giver of boons, the one who fulfils all desires. I begin my studies. May there always be accomplishments for me.”
• SATHYA SAI BABA –”Action with love is right conduct. Speak with love and it becomes truth.”
• SATHYA SAI BABA –”Iron turns to rust if it seeks the company of soil. It glows, softens and takes on useful shapes, if it enjoys the company of fire. Dust can fly if it chooses the wind as its friend. It has to end as slime in a pit, if it prefers water. It has neither wing nor foot, yet it can fly or walk, rise or fall, according to the friend it selects.”
• SATHYA SAI BABA –”Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.”
• SIDDHASWARUPANANDA –”Everyone is engaged in action. The law of karma means that there are reactions to every action and that a person must endure the reactions to his actions.”
• SOCRATES –”I am not an Athenian or a Greek, i am a citizen of the world.”
• SOREN KIERKEGAARD –”The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
• SRI AUROBINDO –”Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.”
• SRI CHINMOY –”What we call our joy. God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection.”
• SRI CHTNMOY –”He who does not love life, To him life is a taut And rigid grasp. He who loves life, To him life is a beautiful And powerful clasp.”
• SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB –”0 my mind, day and night, you are always full of wishful hopes. Serve the true Guru, and your emotional attachment shall be totally burnt away; remain detached within the home of your heart.”
• SRI SATHYA SAI BABA –”Carry the name of God to every door, wake the sleeping with it, purify the atmosphere of the streets rendered unclean by angry shouts of hate or greed, faction or fight.”
• SRI SATHYA SAI BABA –”Truth is one; there cannot be two. For, two can only be One, occurring twice.”
• SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR –”The Universe is a multilayered existence; there are many levels: there are the molecular, the atomic and the subatomic levels. So also the human consciousness: though one, yet it is many.”
• SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR –”When people losefaith in the natural goodness of human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness is the one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.”
• SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM –”Verily nothing is more purifying than the holy name of God.”
• ST JOHN OF THE CROSS –”Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.”
• STEPHEN ARTERBURN AND JIM BURNS –”It’s important to let our kids know we are aware of our inadequacies. You have nothing to lose in honestly admitting to them that you didn’t do everything correctly as a parent. The admission may be the key to opening communication and beginning the process of healing your relationships with your kids.”
• SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE –”Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, Satyam, truth; Shivam, God; Sundaram, beauty Nationalism in India has… roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been lying dormant in our people.”
• SWAMI KRISHNANANDA –”Seekers of Truth, aspirants on the path of yoga, devotees of God, lovers of mankind, all these have to pay tribute to the supreme father of energy, vital, which is Surya. If you have any visible God, it is the Sun before you.”
• SWAMI KRISHNANANDA –”The Sun is not merely a huge orb of atomic energy as the physicists would tell us, but a radiant mass of life-giving vitality to everyone. And it is this Surya that is worshipped on Pongal.”
• SWAMI RAMDAS –”People do not know what the name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely… The name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.”
• SWAMI SIVANANDA –”The Sun itself stands for all the ideals of the Pongal festival. Its message is that of light, unity equality and true selflessness. These are the ideals of Karma Yoga. Hence, the sun is the greatest Karma Yogi.”
• SWAMI SIVANANDA –”The sun, symbolizing wisdom, divine knowledge and spiritual light, which receded from you when you revelled in the darkness of ignorance, delusion andsensuality, now joyously turns on its northward course and moves towards you to shed its light and warmth in greater abundance, and to infuse into you more life and energy. The sun signifies knowledge, spiritual light and wisdom…. Makara Sankranti signifies that we should turn away from the darkness of delusion in which we live, and begin to joyously let the light within us shine brighter and brighter.”
• SWAMI’ VISHNU-DEVANANDCI –”Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.”
• SWAMI VIVEKANANDA –”If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere. How? You have seen my brethren.,. Let these men go from village to village bringing not only religion to the door of everyone but also education.”
• TATTVARTHASUTRA –”Rendering help to another is the function of all human beings.”
• THE DALAI LAMA –”I try to treat whoever i meet as an old friend with dignity, with honour.”
• THE DALAI LAMA XIV –”We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don’t make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace.”
• THE MAHABHARATA –”Health best of all gains and peace of mind is the best of all happiness.”
• THE URANTIA BOOK –”This magnificent and universal injunction to strive for the attainment of the perfection of divinity is the first duty and should be the highest ambition, of all the struggling creature creations of the God of perfection.”
• THE VISION OF HERMES –”Hermes: What marvellous sense has opened up to me? I no longer see with eyes of the body but with those of the spirit. How has that come to pass? Osiris: Child of dust, it is because the Word is in thee. That in thee which hears, sees, and acts is the Word itself, the sacred fire, the creative utterance. Hermes: I see the seven regions which comprise the visible and invisible world… Still, how does mankind journey through all these worlds?”
• THIRUKURAL –”Among a man’s many good possessions, a good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.”
• THOMAS FULLER –”Better be alone than in bad company.”
• THOMAS READ –”One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.”
• VICTOR HUGO –”Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.”
• VINCENT VAN GOGH –”An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.”
• VIRGIL –”The greatest wealth is health.”
• WAYNE DYER –”The mind is like a white cloth. Dip it in red dye, it turns red; dip it in green, it turns green. Put it out in the sun for long, it loses its colour. The mind truly is the Self itself, with no colour. Swami Chidananda What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –”All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.”
• WOODY ALLEN –”Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
• WTHSTON CHURCHILL –”Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”
• YAJURVEDA –”We should always be soft spoken. Sweet speech has the ability to attract one and all. On the contrary, vitriolic speech keeps people away That is why one should always be soft spoken so that it enhances brotherhood and affection.”
• YEVGENY YEUTUSHENKO –”Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.”
• YOGANANDA PARAMAHANSA –”Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them… Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.”
• ZEN BUDDHISM –”The person who is a master in the art of living makes little distinction between their work and their play, their labour and their leisure, their mind and their body, their education and their recreation, their love and their religion. They hardly know which is which. They simply pursue their vision of excellence and grace in whatever they do, leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing. To them, they are always doing both.”

About the Author

Dr. Ashok Kumar Sharma, Taxidermist, M.A.(History); Certificate in Taxidermy(Madras); Certifate in Library Science (TOPPER-ML Sukhadia Uni. Udaipur,(Rajasthan) INDIA. Hobby: Cricket; Postal Stamp Collection and Collection of Quotations since 1981.

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