M Quotes
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“Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.”
“Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?”
“Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.”
Source: The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor
“Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'.”
“Man can only come in contact with God through meditation. Meditation is the only way to come in contact with God. God symbolizes the whole, the universe. God symbolizes the totality of all: the sky, the stars, the moon, the sun, the people, the trees, the animals, the flowers and the earth. God is aloving symbol of all that is.
God is not a person, God is a presence. God is consciousness. When you are silent in deep meditation, you start feeling a presence surrounding you, and surrounding the stars, the people, the trees and the mountains. It is a subtle aura of light. The whole existence is radiating life, light and joy.
The whole existence is a dance, which never begins and never ends. The moment you start feeling this infinity of existence, there is nothing that you can do than bow down in gratefulness to the mystery of existence.
There is nothing else to do, but to bow down in thankfulnessfor the precious gift that has been given to you. There is nothing else to do, but to bow down to the precious gift that you are alive and that you can love and be loved.
Thankfulness for this gift arises when we say yes to this great opportunity. Thankfulness arises when we put the mind aside, and start functioning from the heart. That is meditation.
Meditation means to move from the head to the heart. Then God is felt, and the presence becomes tangible. Then one has to surrender to the presence. One has to become one with God.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.”
Source: Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma
“Man can only describe God in his own poor language.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Man can only discover truth through meditation. Truth is not something that the mind can know. Mind can theorise about truth, buit mind can never discover truth. The nature of the mind is not to reach the inner being, the centre of consciousness. The mind exists on the circumference of our consciousness. The mind is needed to communicate and relate with others.
Truth is your very being. Truth only happens
when you fall into deep silence. Truth happens when you forget the whole world. Truth happens when the other is completely
forgotten. In these moments of silence and aloneness truth is revealed. It is not a conclusion of the mind, but a revelation of no-mind.
Meditation simply means turning in. Mind is always turning out. Mind is basically
extroversion. Mind is a beautiful
instrument. You can use the mind, but do not allow the mind to use you. Remember that the real truth is at the center.
At the center there is only consciousness, no thought, and no desires. All the faculties of the mind stop functioning, and you are simply aware, alert and watchful. You simply are. In that state you are truth. And once it is experienced, it starts changing your whole life.
If you know your truth, you cannot be untrue in any way. Even to be untrue to others becomes impossible. The joy of being truthful is such that who would like to fall into the darkness of being untrue. The lying person becomes a problem to himself and to others.
Truth brings many gifts, but one has to open the door of meditation. Nobody can give you the truth. Truth is already given to you from God himself, Truth is not something that has to be found. Truth is already within you.
Meditation means a decision to find your truth. It is a commitment that from this moment my life will be devoted to finding my truth, The truth is not very far away. It needs only one step: it is the step from mind to no-mind.”
Source: The Way of the Heart
“Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.”
“Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.”
“Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.”
“Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.”
Source: The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor
“Man can only use money to buy man-made goods.”
“Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.”
Source: The Writings of Mark Twain
“Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.”
“Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.”
“Man can't say he knows nothing when saying it.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.”
“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.”
Source: Essays in Aesthetics
“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”
“Man can work anywhere and under any condition, but working in a very beautiful place under very beautiful conditions will surely create superior things!”
“Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.”
“Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.”
“Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.”
“Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire.”
Source: The Power of Creative Thoughts
“Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.”
Source: The Journey Home
“Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty. Society, on the other hand, cannot defraud man of his God-granted right... Nor can society systematically void these rights by making their use impossible.”
Source: Encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI on atheistic communism: official Vatican text
“Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another’s sex life.”
“Man cannot be reduced to slavery if he is not distorted first. The politician and the priest have been in a deep conspiracy down the ages. They have been reducing humanity to a crowd of slaves. They are destroying every possibility of rebellion in man—and love is rebellion, because love listens only to the heart and does not care a bit about anything else.”
Source: Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
“Man cannot be sad if he sings.”
“Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.”
“Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue”
“Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.”
“Man cannot bear to be in the wrong. As soon as he feels guilt or remorse, he bends his ethics to suit himself. Actions do not flow from ethics, but ethics from actions, and it is by refining our actions that we refine our ethics.”
“Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.”
Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
“Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.”
Source: Collected Works
“Man cannot call the brimming instant back;
Time's an affair of instants spun to days;
If man must make an instant gold, or black,
Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways.
Life may be duller for an instant's blaze.
Life's an affair of instants spun to years,
Instants are only cause of all these tears.”
Source: Selected poems
“Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future”
“Man cannot choose his duties.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? Think only of repentance, continual repentance, but dismiss fear altogether. Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin. It has been said of old that over one repentant sinner there is more joy in heaven than over ten righteous men. Go, and fear not. Be not bitter against men. Be not angry if you are wronged. Forgive the dead man in your heart what wrong he did you. Be reconciled with him in truth. If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner, even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and expiate not only your own sins but the sins of others.”
“man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer”
“Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“Man cannot do without feelings, but the moment they are considered values in themselves, criteria of truth, justifications for kinds of behavior, they become frightening. The noblest of national sentiments stand ready to justify the greatest of horrors, and man, his breast swelling with lyric fervor, commits atrocities in the sacred name of love.”
Source: Jacques and His Master: An Homage to Diderot in Three Acts
“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.”
Source: The Denial of Death