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“If you are unable to take a decision based on the data available to you, add faith into the equation. Have faith in the higher power that has guided your life till now. And then try to take the decision.”

God Religion Faith Trust Dilemma

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“If you trust the universe, you can't distrust yourself because you are a part of the universe.”

God Religion Faith Spirituality Universe Trust Self Love Self Belief

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“The God said, "One of the first things you did as a baby was to grab someone’s finger. That is your outward tendency. You can hold things that are outside you but I am inside you. You just have to trust and allow me to hold you.”

God Religion Faith Trust Inner Self Inner World

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“If you have seen everything in life, you want to say to people, "Cut the drama and come to the point." But for people, drama is the point. A point is useless to them if it doesn't provide drama.”

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“There is a veil between you and God. Thoughts are like embroidery on that veil. People are doing more and more embroidery on your veil and making it more and more obscure.”

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“God said, "I am the one and only word spoken in the language of silence. All the words spoken or written by the mankind are just an attempt to translate me into their language. So many holy and unholy books, so many theories, ideologies, doctrines, dogmas_. Why. humanity. why? Why can’t you accept that I can’t be translated? Why can’t you return to the language of silence in which I am originally written?”

God Religion Spirituality Silence Society Dogma Beliefs

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“Soul is absolutely free. It is so free that it can choose to be someone who is not free.”

Soul God Religion Spirituality Freedom Enlightenment

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“This world is like an endless TV serial. If you keep discussing the characters and plots, you will never find the one who is watching this from the seat of eternity.”

Soul God Buddhism Eternity Hinduism

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“Bucket may contain some ocean water, not the entire ocean. Your mind can contain theories and stories about gods, not the actual gods.”

Mind Soul God Religion Spirituality Enlightenment Awakening Shunya

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“When you no longer want relief, a cure will come to you.”

Soul God Pain Heartache Scars Seeker

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“God passes by you every moment. You can't see Him because you are walking around with a huge checklist of how He should be. Drop your judgemental mind. Drop yourself and you shall arise with His light shining through you.”

Mind Soul God Good And Evil Hinduism Duality Judgmental Mind

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“The names you have given to everything are not just names. They are the very fabric of the curtain which is separating you from God.”

Mind Soul God Spirituality Hinduism Nothingness

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“Suppose you have a weighing scale that has maximum weighing limit of 10kg. If I put things below 10 kg on it, it will measure them correctly. If I put an 11kg thing, it will measure it incorrectly as 10 kg. When you try to describe things that are beyond your limit, you end up describing yourself and your own limits.”

Mind Soul Philosophy God Psychology Mysticism Hinduism

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“Imagine that God or Supreme Power came before you in the form of a fragrance which is a mixture of all the fragrances of the universe. But your mind will only pick up fragrances you are familiar with and say, “I know the fragrance of God. It’s like fragrance of my child... my lover ... my parents... my childhood memories ...” The God is right before you but your mind is recognizing only small parts of Him. To experience Him fully, you have to rise above the level of mind, and then rise above the level of soul, and finally be the God or Paramatma.”

Soul God Spirituality Enlightenment Awakening Hinduism Nothingness Supreme Soul

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“God, the world seen through the glasses of my limited understanding no longer interests me. I surrender my questions, my answers, my theories, my opinions, my beliefs. Fill me with awe. Overwhelm me with your wonders.”

Mind Soul God Faith Devotion Hinduism Advaita Non Duality Hindu

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“When you touch river Ganga in Rishikesh, you also touch the ocean to which the river is connected. Because the distinction between the river and ocean is just in your mind. You also touch the vapours rising from ocean, You touch clouds, rains, earth, mountains, You touch eternity. You touch God. Remove the distinctions, clean the mind. God is right here, right now.”

Mind Soul Whole God Spirituality Universe Advaita Duality Non Duality

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“There may be many tourist places in your city Tourists go inside them and explore. You see them from outside everyday. But you haven’t gone inside them and explored like a tourist. God is not far away from you. He is so near that you have created a mental distance from Him.”

Mind Soul God Religion Buddhism Hinduism

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“I don't know', 'Maybe', 'Perhaps' - If you have stopped using these phrases, you are imprisoned by your beliefs. You don't have beliefs. Beliefs have you.”

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“People don't have time to be evil. There is pettiness all around but not much evil.”

Life Mind Soul Philosophy God Wisdom Religion Buddhism Zen Spirituality Vs Religion

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“Past troubles those who divide it into two: Waste that must be disposed off and trophies that must be showcased. Things of the past are raw material for the future. If they are dirty, wash them with acceptance. If they are too bright, dip them into grace.”

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“These days, people of all religions and sects have this thought process in common: "God is with me because my heart and intentions are pure. Yes, my head is messy but my heart is pure. Yes, I did this and that but my intentions were not wrong." If everybody is so pure and pious, why is there so much pain and misery in this world?”

God Religion Logic Intention Karma Devotion Hinduism

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“When God sees that you have the potential to undertake an inward journey to reach Him, your outside world starts turning upside down.”

God Success Failure Disappointment Hinduism

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“Your mind is like an umbrella. You want me to come under it. How is that possible? I am the sky. Throw away the umbrella. Let me drench you.”

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“Deep down all souls are innocent but they're caught up in a ruthless game.”

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“Mind says, “Wherever you see a temple or something related to god, bow down.” Mind wants to be the authority that decides what is godly and what is not. God says, “Wherever you bow down in egolessness, there is me and my temple.”

Mind God Religion Spirituality Ego Purity Holiness Egoless Egolessness

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“When you collapse, shatter, completely fall apart, and have no power left to even pray or hope, you will find yourself sitting in the lap of Supreme Power. Until then you will keep chasing illusions.”

God Truth Pain Suffering Hope Prayer Awakening Supreme Power

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“As long as you have some power left in you, you will use it to complain, to cry, to spin logic, to harm your body. When you become completely powerless and helpless, you will discover the infinite power in you.”

God Pain Spirituality Infinite Hinduism Helplessness

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“Know yourself and you will know God. Are you a body, a mind, a soul or something else or nothing? Can you be anything you want to be or you are already everything you want to be?”

Self God Hinduism Inner Self Vedanta Who Am I

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“If there is a diamond hidden in some drawer at your home, perhaps you won’t notice until next festive cleaning. If it’s in a hotel room. you will find it immediately after check-in. You are in the illusion that your body, family. home, office etc. are yours. Because of this illusion of ownership, you are missing so many diamonds that God has given you. See everything from the eyes of a guest, not owner.”

Self God Truth Spirituality Gratitude Mindfulness Illusion Detachment

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“There is difference between knowing something and knowing "about" something. To know tea, you have to drink it. To know "about" it, you can google information and write essays or books on it. Tragedy is that most people just want to know "about" God. Those who dare to jump from the boat of knowledge and dive into nothingness are very very few.”

God Wisdom Spirituality Language Knowledge Buddhism Thoughts Words Hinduism

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“While trying to align yourself with people, don't misalign yourself with the universe.”

Life Philosophy God Wisdom Spirituality Universe New Age

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“Two things happen at the same time: In inner world, your soul starts surrendering to the supreme soul (Paramatma]. In outer world, a love affair starts between your body-mind and the rest of the universe. And the universe loves like no lover ever can.”

God Religion Faith Spirituality Universe Surrender Hinduism

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“If the creation is a joke told by God, human thoughts are like explanation of that joke. Explanation ruins the whole joke.”

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“Young Shani Deva was extremely attached to his mother. She became fatally Ill. To get a cure for her, he decided to climb mount Kailash and meet the supreme God. To climb higher and higher, he had to let go of all his baggages, including the baggage of attachment to mother. Then two things happened at the same time: God met him and his mother got cured. Attachment harms our loved ones, love heals them.”

Love God Universe Buddhism Attachment Hinduism Let Go

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“A dentist can work on you only if you remain calmly sitting in the chair. Usually our wish gets fulfilled when we get tired and stop wishing for it. Because that’s when we become calm and allow divine energies to work upon us.”

God Religion Faith Universe Wish Karma

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“Any decision you take can have good and bad consequences. (No decision is also a decision.) If you’re ready to accept the consequences, it will turn out to be good decision. Because action and its consequences make the whole circle. Acceptance of the whole brings blessings of the whole (The Supreme Power).”

Life God Wisdom Spirituality Confusion Decisions Hinduism Consequences Doubts

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“Transparent children of God, competing with each other to look different, have put on layers and layers of colourful illusions.”

God Religion Spirituality Society Comparison Rat Race

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“What do you do?" "I am in search of God." A culture where this answer is considered 'abnormal' is doomed.”

God Religion Culture Society Seeker

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“If you don't try to define Him like scholars do, if you don't reduce Him to a mere concept, any path can lead you to Him. Even thieves and decoits can find a sharp exit on their path and merge with Him.”

God Religion Spirituality Buddhism Hinduism Divine Path

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“Stand before a mirror, ignore your reflection and try to see the whole mirror. It’s difficult. God stands before you like a huge mirror but you only see your own reflection, your own tiny world.”

Mind Soul God Reality Spirituality Buddhism Illusion Hinduism

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“A, B, C, D... These alphabets are everywhere in a book. But our mind reads whole words and sentences. Similarly, God and godliness is everywhere. Our mind only sees people, animals and things.”

Mind Philosophy God Reality Religion Spirituality Supreme Power

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“Darkness invites you to create a light show.”

Philosophy God Light Religion Spirituality Darkness

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“My child, if you think you have done something wrong, come to me first. If you keep on hiding from me, you will sink deeper and deeper into darkness.”

God Darkness Guilt Confession Wrong Choices

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“When you make your wounds your identity, you start seeing wounds everywhere. What comes to you depends on what you identify yourself with. God comes to you when you identify with nothing.”

God Peace Nothingness Deity Shunya

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