Admonition...

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

Shakespeare

Mind...

"The mind is a powerful instrument. A conscious, 

single-pointed thought will naturally manifest in 

the world."

Sadhguru

Love...

"Love is not what you do. 

Love is the way you are."

Sadhguru

I am....Who?

"Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; 

not the mind, because the brain will decay with 

the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, 

for these also will vanish with death." 

Ramana Maharshi

Cherokee wisdom...

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life.

“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

Please view Virtues for Life : http://www.virtuesforlife.com/two-wolves/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N67Yu7uHECk

Power

"All power structures sooner or later crumble 

under their own failings. The deeper their 

failings, the shorter their reign."

Master Wu Wei

Illusions...

"If your illusions are shattered, 

it means you are getting closer 

to reality."

Sadhguru 

The Apparition

When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, 

I am dead 

And that thou think'st thee free 

From all solicitation from me, 

Then shall my ghost come to thy bed, 

And thee, feign'd vestal, in worse 

arms shall see; 

Then thy sick taper will begin to wink, 

And he, whose thou art then, 

being tir'd before, 

Will, if thou stir, or pinch to wake him, 

think thou call'st for more, 

And in false sleep will from thee shrink; 

And then, poor aspen wretch, 

neglected thou 

Bath'd in a cold quicksilver sweat 

wilt lie a verier ghost than I. 

What I will say, I will not tell thee now, 

Lest that preserve thee; and since 

my love is spent, 

I'had rather thou shouldst 

painfully repent, 

Than by my threat'nings 

rest still innocent. 

JOHN DONNE

Aging....

"The great thing about getting older is 

that you don't lose all the other ages 

you've been."

Madeleine L'Engle

Cowardice

‘To know what is right and 

not do it is the worst cowardice.’ 

Confucius

Earth...

"Your body is just a scoop of earth. Carry it gracefully. 

And when it’s time to put it back, put it back gracefully."

Sadhguru

Human resources?

"Considering a human being as a resource is a crime. 

A human being is a possibility that needs nurturing 

to unfold."

Sadhguru 

Memory...

"I have a memory like an elephant. 

In fact, elephants often consult me."

Noel Coward

Universe...

"The universe opens its doors only to

those that pay enough attention"

Sadhguru

No new philosophies...

"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable 

that it has not been said by one philosopher or 

another." 

Rene Descartes

Chaucer...

"The greatest scholars are not 

usually the wisest people." 

Geoffrey Chaucer

Passions...

"Where the sun has entered the western hills, 

I look for a monk in his little straw hut; 

But only the fallen leaves are at home, 

And I turn through chilling levels of cloud 

I hear a stone gong in the dusk, 

I lean full-weight on my slender staff 

How within this world, within this grain of dust, 

Can there be any room for the passions of men?' 

Tang Shi

Finite and infinite...

"Our minds are finite, and yet even 

in these circumstances of finitude 

we are surrounded by possibilities that 

are infinite,  and the purpose of life is to 

grasp as much as we can out of 

that infinitude." 

Alfred North Whitehead