Dwell in the Divine.
Live and move in it.
Get absorbed in the Divine Flame.
The more intensely you desire for reacging the Goal,
the more rapidly you advance towards it.
Sri Swami Sivananda
Ta musique incite mon âme à danser;
j'entends Ta flûte dans le murmure du vent;
les vagues de la mer conservent le rythme de Tes pas dansants.
A travers toute la nature, j'entends jouer Ta musique mon Bien-Aimé;
tout en dansant, mon âme chante sa joie.
Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Deine Musik regt mich zum Tanzen an;
im Säuseln des Windes vernehme ich Dein Flötenspiel;
die Wogen des Meeres bewahren den Rhythmus Deiner tanzenden Schritte.
In der ganzen Natur vernehm'ich Deine Musik, mein Geliebter;
im Tanze verkündet meine Seele in Liedern ihre Freude.
Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
Der Mensch ist eine Flamme der Liebe. Der ganze Kosmos und
all seine Geschöpfe sind der Glückseligkeit Gottes, seinem eigenen
kosmischen Sein entsprungen. In diese höchste Glückseligkeit einzugehen, ist
das wahre Ziel des menschlichen Lebens. Meditiere daher über dein Selbst.
Verehre dein Selbst, weil Gott in dir wohnt. Lerne, dich an deinem Inneren
zu berauschen. Du bist der, den du suchst. Du bist der, den du finden
willst.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty
in the character.
If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.
Ir there in harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation.
When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
Sathya Sai Baba
Erlaube deinem Geist, nach innen zu gehen, immer wieder,
um seine eigene innere Stille zu erfahren.
Wenn du das tust, leuchtet das göttliche Licht auf,
das du als das Licht
deines eigenen Herzens wahrnimmst.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
You can have what you want to have, do what you want to do,
or be what you want to be in this lifetime-including Self-Realization. You
only need to tap into the Infinite Power within you, which is pure
Consciousness, and from That Awareness assume the feeling that would be
yours if you were already who and what you desire to be.
Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi
Wenn du fällst, geh den Weg
trotzdem mit Enthusiasmus weiter in der Vorstellung, dass dein Versagen dazu
gedacht war, dich wachsamer zu machen.
Mata Amritanandamayi
Reine Liebe ist nichts anderes,
als den Geist von allen Ängsten zu entleeren und alle Masken
herunterzureissen.
Sie enthüllt das Selbst, wie es ist.
Mata Amritanandamayi
Weltliche Beziehungen gleichen
Begegnungen an einer Bushaltestelle. Jeder steigt an irgendeiner Haltestelle
aus. Du allein wirst zurückbleiben. Suche nach der Wahrheit, ohne dich in
Träumen zu verlieren.
Mata Amritanandamayi
Wir können die Gegebenheiten des
Lebens nicht ändern, aber unsere Einstellung ihnen gegenüber.
Mata Amritanandamayi
Unser Egoismus ist das
Haupthindernis für unsere Annäherung an Gott. Egoismus verschwindet
automatisch, wenn wir Mitgefühl für andere hegen.
Mata Amritanandamayi
The moment you decide to open your
heart to grace you will be filled.
Swami Muktananda
Whether one believes in a religion
or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who
doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion"
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
You
can make the Self manifest before you. It exists within for your sake, right
in the heart. You cannot see It through the eyes, nor can you attain It
through speech. The tongue can speak about It, but the true nature of the
Self is silence.
Swami Muktananda
When
you observe the mountains, when you watch the moon rise or the sun set, you
experience a sweet and wondrous silence. You want to savor it again and
again. Is there a way to recreate this silence without going to the
mountains, without watching the moon rise, without being anywhere special?
Just by being where you are? Yes there is. Every time you have satsang,
every time you gather in the company of the Truth, of divine knowledge, you
are able to create the same sweet and wondrous silence.
In this silence you grow spiritually….It is the power of good company, the
power of meditation, the power of the mantra, the power of chanting that
create this sweet and most extraordinary silence.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Once you
experience the inner silence you never feel empty, because in the inner
silence you can hear the stars speak, you can hear the voice of the water,
you can hear the voice of the great Self. You hear and you understand. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Love your
own Self. Love is within you. Regard everyone with respect because the rays
of God are within everybody. Respect yourself, do not put yourself down, do
not make yourself weak with bad thoughts. Perform your actions with
justice…. Live in that way. Stay away from injustice. Stay very close to
God. Swami Muktananda
When you
become aware of silence, you are surrendering your small will to God’s will,
the great Will. Your heart becomes full of humility, patience, and
steadfastness. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
When we
have prayed and aspired and hungered for the truth for a long time, for
many, many lives, and when our karma has become sufficiently purified, a
kind of miracle takes place. And this miracle, if we can understand and use
it, can lead to the ending of ignorance forever: The inner teacher, who has
been with us always, manifests in the form of the “outer teacher,” who,
almost as if by magic, we actually encounter. This is the most important
encounter of any lifetime. Sogyal Rinpoche
Sometimes
people think that when they meditate there should be no thoughts and
emotions at all; and when thoughts and emotions do arise, they become
annoyed and exasperated with themselves and think they have failed. Nothing
could be further from the truth. There is a Tibetan saying: “It’s a tall
order to ask for meat without bones, and tea without leaves.” As long as you
have a mind, you will have thoughts and emotions. Sogyal Rinpoche
Awareness
of silence is…a great state, a state in which you experience inner miracles,
inner treasures. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Whatever
our lives are like, our buddha nature is always there. And it is always
perfect. We say that not even the buddhas can improve it in their infinite
wisdom, nor can sentient beings spoil it in their seemingly infinite
confusion.
Our true nature could be compared to the sky, and the confusion of the
ordinary mind to clouds. Some days the sky is completely obscured by clouds.
When we are down on the ground, looking up, it is very difficult to believe
that there is anything else there but clouds. Yet we have only to fly in a
plane to discover above the clouds a limitless expanse of clear blue sky.
From up there, the clouds we assumed were everything seem so small and so
far away down below.
We should always try to remember: The clouds are not the sky and do not
“belong” to it. They only hang there and pass by in their slightly
ridiculous and nondependent fashion. And they can never stain or mark the
sky in any way. Sogyal Rinpoche
For
meditation to happen, calm and auspicious conditions have to be created.
Before we have mastery over our minds, we need first to calm their
environment.
At the moment, our minds are like a candle flame: unstable, flickering,
constantly changing, fanned by the violent winds of our thoughts and
emotions. The flame will burn steadily only when we can calm the air around
it; so we can only begin to glimpse and rest in the nature of mind when we
have stilled the turbulence of our thoughts and emotions. On the other hand,
once we have found a stability in our meditation, noises and disturbances of
every kind will have far less impact. Sogyal Rinpoche
Gradually,
as you remain open and mindful, and use a technique to focus your mind more
and more, your negativity will slowly be defused; you begin to feel well in
your own skin, or, as the French say, être bien dans sa peau (“well in your
own skin”). From this comes release and a profound ease. I think of this
practice as the most effective form of therapy and self-healing. Sogyal Rinpoche
Every
single negative thing we have ever thought or done has ultimately arisen
from our grasping at a false self, and our cherishing of that false self,
making it the dearest and most important element in our lives. All those
negative thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions that are the cause of our
negative karma are engendered by self-grasping and self-cherishing. They are
the dark, powerful magnet that attracts to us, life after life, every
obstacle, every misfortune, every anguish, every disaster, and so they are
the root cause of all the sufferings of samsara. Sogyal Rinpoche
L'être humain est partie d'un
tout, communément appelé l'Univers, une partie limitée dans le temps et
l'espace. Il se perçoit lui-même, avec ses pensées et ses émotions, comme
une entité séparée, une sorte d'illusion d'optique, créée par sa conscience,
et qui le maintien dans une sorte de prison, une prison qui le limite à ses
propres désirs et qui fait qu'il n'accorde son affection qu'à ceux qui lui
sont proche. La tâche de l'être humain est de se libérer de cette prison, en
élargissant le cercle de ceux qui méritent son affection jusqu'à inclure le
genre humain tout entier, ainsi que la nature tout entière, dans toute sa
beauté. Albert Einstein
