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“There are many religions in society but society itself is the super-religion. It says, "You are a nobody. All your life you have to try and become somebody. You are a pathetic bio-mass. You have no divine existence." Surprisingly, everybody follows this crazy super-religion.”

Religion Society Competition Inner Peace Rat Race

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“A person got hit by a car. You didn't feel the pain because you are not attached to that person. Someone passed a comment on your clothes; You felt pain because you're attached to your clothes. Attachment causes pain and pleasure.”

Pain Spirituality Criticism Inner Peace Attachment Detachment

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“When you see thing through a window of 100 years, everything seems meaningless and depressing because nothing is going to stay for that long. Through the window of present moment, everything looks beautiful and divine.”

Philosophy Spirituality Psychology Depression Inner Peace New Age Living In The Present Shunya

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“I meditated for 3 minutes.” ... “I meditated for 3 hours.” ... “I meditated for 3 days.” No. You meditated for no-Time. Meditation is all about detaching from Time. The time you are telling is just memory of the character you have landed upon “after” floating in no-Time.”

Peace Meditation Mindfulness Eternity Inner Peace Timelessness

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“If you have perpetual disagreement with your family member, no matter where the conversation starts, it will end at the same conflicting point. It’s so repetitive that you exactly know their response even before they say it. If that is so, why not do it all in your head? Say both your side and their side of argument in your own head while watching them silently. It will become like a prayer. At the end you will not DEMAND them to change. You will just wish. And wishes do get fulfilled.”

Peace Relationships Buddhism Argument Inner Peace Hinduism

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“You were born as pure gold. Family and social conditioning coated you with iron and magnetized it. Stop attracting the outside scrap and recognize the gold inside you.”

Inspirational Spirituality Inner Peace Inner Self Inner Journey

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“For worldly activities like swimming and paragliding, you need to put on additional special outfits. For spiritual pursuit, you need to remove your existing outfits (layers of ego).”

Wisdom Spirituality Ego Inner Peace

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“To get godly powers, you must have godly qualities. For human mind, the easiest godly quality to acquire is 'Infinite Patience'. That means, you should be able to wait infinitely for the results. In other words, you should not expect results, Those who can wait infinitely get it instantly.”

Philosophy Spirituality Buddhism Patience Hinduism Expectation Divine Power Inner Power

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“The universe means Time and Space. To befriend Time, be patient. To befriend Space, declutter your life and be simple.”

Life Spirituality Universe Patience Simplicity

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“Learn from waste disposal system of your body. Wasteful people or situations pass through the most sensitive aspect of your life just before they exit forever. Don’t be scared; don’t make a deal with the devil when he is heading towards the exit door.”

Life Wisdom Life Quotes Patience

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“A cloth seller is wandering from street to street. It’s evening, still no sales. It feels like he is walking through a desert, dying to get a drop of water, dying to make a sale. He is frustrated now. He gets angry at a customer who actually wanted to buy a lot of clothes from him. Those who walk miles and miles through a desert often die just a few feet away from water.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Patience Goals

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“Yes, it's frustrating to not being able to reach a conclusion. But it's devastating to reach a wrong conclusion. Have patience.”

Inspirational Patience Conclusion Clarity Frustration

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“When we dig a well, we get muddy water before clean water. A thirsty person would swallow the muddy water and become sick. Only those who are detached from the thirst can be patient at the finishing line where nectar is often hidden behind poison.”

Life Success Purpose Spirituality Buddhism Patience Detachment

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“Sages told the king that prince Siddhartha would become a Sanyasi, To avoid it, king kept him within the luxuries of the palace for years. When prince went out, he suddenly saw sick, old, dead and suffering people. He became a Sanyasi. Had prince gone out and seen suffering from childhood, he would have become used to it like we have. He wouldn’t have become a Sanyasi. Telling the destiny and avoiding the destiny are a part of destiny.”

Spirituality Destiny Buddhism Astrology Buddha Hindu Fortune Telling

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“If you are addicted to sweets, eat them slowly, very slowly. Slow pace unhooks you from addictive things.”

Life Lessons Addiction Obsession Compulsion

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“People who claim to love you swear that they can die for you, but they won’t let you live in peace.”

Love Relationships Obsession Attachment Clinging

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“Spirituality is not about changing who you are. It’s about discovering who you are.”

Life Philosophy Religion Spirituality Transformation Self Discovery

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“No amount of junk food and junk web content can substitute for the love and affection that you need.”

Love Self Love Affection Fitness Bad Habits Junk Food

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“Independence is scary. So we either make others dependent on us or become dependent on others.”

Life Choices Spirituality Freedom Independence Dependence Free Spirit

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“If you have seen your teacher only in school, it feels strange to come across them in a market. If you have seen your milkman or newspaper boy only at sunrise, it feels strange to see them in broad daylight when they come to collect payment. When a friend or loved one breaks away from your circle, it feels strange to see them in their new circle. It is not jealously. It is a spontaneous and neutral feeling. It turns into jealousy when it gets mixed with our fears and insecurities. Accept this feeling as-it-is before it turns into jealousy.”

Relationships Friendship Society Jealousy Comparison

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“Even the mighty Sun might get depressed if He started comparing Himself with the moon: “People take me for granted and sing praises of the moon.”

Depression Envy Jealousy Comparison Uniqueness

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“After one point, you have to let go of your deity, your books, your theories and stories. You have to let go of everything and merge with the supreme nothingness. This last step is the most difficult to take. It's not a step. It's a jump which lands you directly in the lap of supreme power.”

Enlightenment Awakening Devotion Nothingness Seeker Shunya

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“Fandom is about group activities. Devotion is personal. The relationship between deity and devotee is one-to-one. Devotee gives bath to deity, clothes Him, feeds Him and so on. Your Ganesha is only yours. My Ganesha is only mine. As many devotees, as many Ganesha s.”

Spirituality Devotion Hinduism Devotee Bhakti

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“God is in my heart.' -- This has become the most common excuse to avoid spiritual journey. If He were in your heart, you would be swept over by feelings and emotions. Instead thoughts and opinions are crawling all over you.”

Religion Spirituality Buddhism Thoughts Emotions Devotion Hinduism

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“Your path can be a mixture of logic and devotion but if logic is more powerful than devotion, it becomes a dangerous cocktail. Then your logic can justify anything as devotional. People taking drugs in the name of Shiva and so on...”

Devotion Hinduism Hindu Shiva

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“Mind uses fancy phrases such as 'love' or 'unconditional' love to glorify its cravings. If you have indeed found the well of unconditional love inside you, you have found God.”

Love God Devotion Unconditional Love Hinduism Divine Love

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“Devotional songs were once written and sung by saints. Now it's being done my marijuana addicts, juvenile eye-candies, delusional fancy dress wearers and so on. Bhakti movement has come full circle.”

India Devotion Hinduism Bhakti Yoga Bhakti

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“Without seeing a miracle you can't have faith. Without faith you can't have miracle. The answer to this paradox is gratitude. Be grateful that you're alive. It's a miracle.”

God Religion Faith Spirituality Belief Miracle Devotion

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“Juvenile lover’s mind imagines, “The one I love is in danger. I go and save her. She falls in love with me.” The beginner devotee’s mind imagines, “Some lowlife disrespects my deity. My deity is in danger. I go and fight for my deity. He blesses me.”

Religion Faith Belief Devotion Hinduism Dogma Fanaticism

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“Dear God, what can I offer you? I brought these flowers, But all plants are yours, so are the flowers. What is mine to give? My eyes have filled with tears. But these eyes are yours, so are the tears. I have nothing to offer except my gratitude.”

God Religion Prayer Gratitude Devotion Hinduism

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“When you watch mountains, ocean or think of the infinite space, you feel small in a positive way. You feel close to the sacred nothingness. The path of devotion is based on the same phenomenon: You devote yourself to towering figures who can make you feel so small (in a positive way) that you feel closer to nothingness, closer to God.”

Religion Faith Spirituality Devotion Nothingness

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“When true surrender happens (through supreme knowledge or devotion), you become brush in the hands of the supreme painter, and He turns your mistakes into masterpieces.”

Religion Faith Buddhism Surrender Devotion Hinduism

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“I can win over anything because I let my higher self win over me.”

Religion Faith Spirituality Devotion Higher Self

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“On the path of devotion, the relationship between the devotee and deity is personal and unique. Your father’s Hanuman can be different from your Hanuman. Maybe his Hanuman doesn’t allow him to cut nails on Tuesday, your Hanuman might allow. The devotee assigns characteristics to the deity out of love. There are as many deities as there are devotees.”

Faith Devotion Hinduism Hindu Hanuman

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“Meera loved her deity so much that she would see Him in everyone. When you see a poor beggar suffering, you may get angry at the society or God but Meera would give him food and say, “That is my deity doing drama to invoke feeling of compassion in me and to make me feel like a giver.”

Love Life Faith Devotion Hinduism Hindu Bhakti

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“The gods don’t like to enslave you. They don’t like to give salary. Ask them for bonus and you will get it beyond your wildest imaginations. How to ask? Simple. Be satisfied with what you have right now. Then everything you seek will be a bonus.”

Religion Faith Gratitude Devotion

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“When we wake up in the middle of the night to attend the nature’s call, we try to stay sleepy. That is one of the most pleasant feelings. When realized people come out of their state of realization to do worldly chores, they get even better feeling which is called Bliss.”

Spirituality Devotion Realization Bliss Inner Joy

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“You have tried changing things the way you want. Now try accepting them the way they are. Acceptance brings things closer to you. And closer they are, more influence you have over them.”

Life Religion Spirituality Acceptance

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“If you accept yourself the way you are, you will keep getting better and better. If you keep fighting with yourself, you will become more and more wounded.”

Spirituality Acceptance Self Love Self Improvement Peace Of Mind

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“A leaf fell from the tree, trembled with fear, and prayed, “Cod, stitch me back to the tree.” God didn’t seem to listen. So it befriended air, which took it far away from the tree. Another leaf accepted the fall without fear. It turned into compost and entered back in the roots of the tree. It rose through the tree and became a new leaf in next season. It got “stitched” back to the tree!”

God Religion Faith Spirituality Fear Acceptance Hinduism

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“Suppose you get a feeling to punch someone. If you act on it, a war breaks out with that person. If you resist the feeling, a war breaks out with yourself within your head. That is even worse. Accept all your feelings no matter how wrong they seem to you. Drink them in their original flavour. But act on them only and only if you want that person in the story of your life as a villain or hero.”

Philosophy Feelings Acceptance Conflict Confusion

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“When you're doing your best, at deeper level you will have total acceptance about the present situation and the outcome of your efforts. Prayer and divine intervention happens at that level.”

God Faith Prayer Acceptance Divine

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“Every loss creates a void. If you try to fill it, you will fill it with garbage. If you let time fill it, it will be filled with normal stuff. If you don't let it fill, God will call out to you through it. Then you will begin the journey to find Him.”

Pain Religion Spirituality Loss Void

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“You say you have lost everything and life is unfair to you. Check again. You have gained a huge pile of victimhood. Lose this too and you shall find yourself in the lap of supreme power.”

Life God Wisdom Pain Religion Loss Victimhood

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“Anything we lose in life gets replaced by a raw energy. Most people just lock this energy in the black box of regret, guilt or some other negative emotion. Release that energy. Let it manifest into something good in your life.”

Life Pain Loss Regret Guilt New Beginning

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“Don’t grieve at the loss of your most favourite plant. Dig the earth to know why it happened. You may find a hidden treasure there.”

Life Inspirational Opportunity Loss Failure

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“Only your conscious being is eternally yours. Everything else is bonus. The loss or gain is happening from the bonus.”

Universe Loss Consciousness Buddhism Eternity Hinduism Gain

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“Spiralling thoughts exaggerate everything. Good things are not as good as they seem and bad things are not as bad as they seem.”

Mind Philosophy Spirituality Psychology Anxiety Thoughts

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“There is a super interesting theory of evolution: Human beings didn't evolve from apes. They evolved from thoughts. Vedas are the original and purest thoughts that existed before human beings. Thoughts use human beings to evolve themselves. Human beings don't use thoughts.”

Philosophy Psychology Evolution Thoughts Hinduism Vedas

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“The cause of misery is not lack of something but excess of thoughts.”

Pain Meditation Mindfulness Thoughts Misery Desires

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