Geniuses...

"Idiots do things they don’t like. Intelligent ones 

do what they love. Geniuses learn to do what is 

needed joyfully."

Sadhguru

Human being...

"A human being is like a seed.
Either you can keep it as it is, 

or you can make it grow into a
wonderful tree with flowers 

and fruits."

Sadhguru

My choice...

"How people are is their choice. How I am is
my choice. No matter what they do,
no one can make me angry, 

happy or unhappy. These privileges
I have kept to myself."

Sadhguru 

Giving and receiving...

"If you want to receive, you have to give. 

This is not a marketplace rule. 

This is the way of life."

Sadhguru 

Dreams...

“Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly.” 

 Langston Hughes

Earth...

Being in touch with the earth is a reminder that your 

body is just that – earth. Never forget this.

Sadhguru

Life...

“Life is not about how fast you run or 

how high you climb, but how well you 

bounce.”

Vivian Komori

On consciousness..

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.

We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”

Max Planck

Gift...

"If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities."

Marie-Louise von Franz

Wise....

 

“The simple things are also the most 

extraordinary things, and only the 

wise can see them.” 

Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist

The Rainbow

"The rainbow is a symbol for the unimaginable nature of reality—a reality that escapes our notice in this world of seemingly established things and hard facts. It is, at the same time, a bridge between reality and the unreal. The tangible and the intangible, the visible and the invisible, and a doorway, which leads us into the world of imagination and fairy tales."

Lama Anagarika Govinda

Patiently wait

"A man watches his pear tree day after day, 

impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let 

him attempt to force the process, and he 

may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him 

patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length 

falls into his lap." 

Abraham Lincoln

Creating truth!

" Where I create, there I am true"

Rilke

Absorbing wisdom...

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious 

way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained 

in all the books through your skin, without even 

opening them.” 

Mark Twain

Let life happen...

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: 

life is in the right, always." 

Rainer Maria Rilke

Truth....an abyss!

"The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things."

Franz Kafka

Vedic Prayer...

A bow to Universal Mother 

As we undertake the study 

and seek knowledge 

May we be given one 

pointed attention May we 

be protected May we enjoy 

May we be given strength 

May spiritual knowledge 

shine before us May we 

never oppose one another 

May speech rest in my mind 

May my mind rest in my speech 

May You be before my eyes and 

bring true knowledge to me 

May that Truth protect us 

May it protect my teacher 

May reality protect us 

May we live in peace 

May peace be everywhere 

May there be peace

Vedic Prayer

The risk in life...

“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk 

you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of 

doing nothing.”

Denis Waitley

Belief...

"Believe that with your feelings and your work 

you are taking part in the greatest; the more 

strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will 

reality and the world go forth from it." 

Rainer Maria Rilke

Aristotle..

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” 

Aristotle

Fulfillment: how?

"Only if you do something larger than 

yourself, will you feel forever fulfilled." 

Sadhguru 

What is criminal?

"The moment you function in the world without 

being concerned about what is happening to life 

around you, you are a Criminal."

Sadhguru 

Open doors...

“When one door closes, another opens; 

but we often look so long and so 

regretfully upon the closed door that 

we do not see the one that has opened for us.”

 Alexander Graham Bell

Hormones...

"Hormones hijack intelligence"

Yoghic saying

A wise old owl

"A wise old owl lived in an oak

The more he saw the less he spoke

The less he spoke the more he heard.

Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?"

Unknown

Failure of the human heart!

"One third of the food produced in the world
gets wasted, while one in nine people don’t
have enough to eat. This is not a failure of
agriculture – it is a failure of 

the human heart."

Sadhguru

Touching lives...

"The most effective way of touching lives 

around you is to break your own barriers.:

Sadhguru

Il Vigliacco (The coward)

"Il vigliacco muore mille volte, succube delle

sue dipendenze, incurante delle necessita 

degli altri. Circondato da immondizie egoistiche

sprofonda inesorabilmente nelle tenebre

di un inconscio sul quale non ha

piu' alcun controllo. Quel poco di

ragione che possiede viene usato

per difendere l'insostenibile. Perche'

si': un vigliacco che non si autogiustifica

lascia presto questo mondo.
Aggrappandosi ai suoi vizi e compulsioni
preferisce l'inferno di un' esistenza vuota.
Respira pur essendo
gia morto."

leo

The coward dies a thousand deaths
dominated by its afflictions,
indifferent to the needs of
others.
Enveloped by the filth of
ego's trappings it sinks into
the darkness of an uncontrollable
unconscious.
The little reason that it possesses
justifies the unjustifiable. For a
coward that finds no reason soon
departs this world.
Clinging to his vices and
compulsions it prefers the hell of
an empty existence. It breathes:
a living corpse.

External happiness...

"If your happiness depends upon what is 

happening outside of you, you are a 

slave to the external situation."

Sadhguru

If you love someone...

“If you love someone, set them free.

If they come back they're yours; if 

they don't they never were.”

 Richard Bach”

Life worth it?

“No one ever finds life worth living - 

one has to make it worth living.”

Winston Churchill

What is Enlightenment?

"Enlightenment is not about Light, but 

about a Vision that is beyond Light 

and Darkness."

Sadhguru

Life is about....

“Life isn't about finding yourself. 

Life is about creating yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw

Technology without wisdom !

"Technology without wisdom brings destruction."

Sadhguru

Sanskrit...

"The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists. There is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothick and the Celtick [sic], though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit; and the Old Persian might be added to the same family."

 William Jones, 1786

Quoted by Thomas Burrow in The Sanskrit Language

Life summed up...

“In three words I can sum up everything 

I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Robert Frost

Conflict...

"Conflict in the world is an outer manifestation 

of the human mind. In bringing a sense of ease 

to human mind, we shall know the Power of Peace."

Sadhguru

Being true...

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, 

as the night the day, thou canst not then be 

false to any man."

William Shakespeare

Human importance?

"Our idea of human importance has to change. 

We are just another life form on the planet."

Sadhguru

Death...

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. 

The greatest loss is what dies inside 

us while we live." 

Norman Cousins

Poe...

"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."

Edgar Allen Poe

Anger...

"Your anger is your problem – keep it to yourself."

Sadhguru

Handling headwinds....

"Once in a way, something may go wrong in your life. 

But if your mind and your energies are focused on 

beating yourself up, it will become a series of disasters."

Sadhguru

Purpose....

"The path to my fixed purpose is laid on iron rails, 

on which my soul is grooved to run." 

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Seeing things as they are...

"Never look up to anyone – never look
down on anyone. When you see everything
as it is, you will navigate through life
effortlessly."

Sadhguru

Mature people...

"Especially in times of collective neurosis, 

the existence of mature people is of 

crucial importance."

Marie-Louise von Franz

Best legacy...

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." 

William Shakespeare

Real beauty....

"It’s not the shape of the nose or chin, 

or the color of your skin that makes 

you beautiful. A joyful face is always 

a beautiful face."

Sadhguru

Cobras...

A cobra is a very honest species. it is focused only

on what it is programmed to do and has no evil 

intentions. In this sense it is quite unlike many in the 

human species.

Somwang

New science...

"Future investigations will result in no merely
material prospect that will be opening on our view,
but some glimpse into a region of the universe
which Science has never entered yet,
but which has been sought from
afar, and perhaps blindly apprehended, by 

painter and poet, by philosopher and saint."

Sir Oliver Lodge 1929

British physicist