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“Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.”

Self Problem Form Desire Dies Taxes Ego Weight Self Realization Realization Hinduism Weight Problems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything”

Self Light Might Rooms Quiet Self Realization Realization Hinduism Light Up Flashy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.”

Ifs Self Term Realizing Meditation Strange Self Realization Realization Going Away Hinduism Butterfly Metamorphosis Caterpillars Cocoons

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are with a fully enlightened being, a jivan mukta, liberated soul, the quality of light is so clear, that you don't really know that it is there until later.”

Ifs Knows Soul Light Quality Clear Enlightened Hinduism Liberated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.”

Self Self Realization Realization Liberation Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.”

Way Play Running Causes Responsibility Roles Assuming Misery Hinduism Running Away Krishna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.”

Giving Past Suffering Causes Pleasure Meditation Ecstasy Hinduism Perpetual Krishna Transient Arjuna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.”

Mind Space Awareness Immortal Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment. It's big; it's bright; it's perfect, as are all of its children, as are we.”

Children Bigs Perfect Source Enlightenment All Things Hinduism Tao

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.”

Littles Universe Aspect Tiny Manifestation Hinduism Format Cool Things Aspects Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.”

Has Beens Self Suffering Awareness Conscious Attachment Hinduism Conscious Awareness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yes, there are siddha powers. Yes, you can heal people, transform attention. You can flood the sky with light at night so you can't even see the stars. But the greatest miracle is the spirit - it is light”

People Light Spirit Night Stars Attention Sky Miracle Heal Hinduism Flood Yes You Can

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads.”

Heart Self Matter Greater Enlightenment Consumers Goods Infinity Hinduism Smallest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.”

Light Darkness Seeing Horror Perception All Things Perfection Oneness Hinduism Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.”

World Action Forever Stuck Hinduism Krishna Gita Arjuna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.”

Giving Real Enough Process Successful Seeing Information Development Skills Intellectual Senses Happy Life Hinduism Psychics Unreal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.”

Ifs Doe Enjoy Consciousness Slave Possession Hinduism Enjoy Life Family Friends Success Or Failure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.”

Mind Hinduism Filters Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you're a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.”

Ifs World Persons Religion Peace Christianity Violence Depends Islam Violent Hinduism Scholar Judaism Promoting Mean People Islamophobia

Author:Reza Aslan

“It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.”

People Humans Stills Moments Causes India Hinduism Dedication Solemn Pledge Fitting Indian Independence Day

Book:India's Spokesman: From Speeches and Addresses

Source: India's Spokesman: From Speeches and Addresses

“I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.”

Thinking Christianity Buddhism Hinduism Hinduism And Buddhism

Author:Erwin McManus

“The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.”

Bits Pieces Buddhism Method Sacred Pockets Mature Followers Hinduism Pathetic Derrida

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.”

Ifs Way Looks Beautiful Given India Court Definitions Supreme Hinduism Supreme Court

Author:Narendra Modi

“I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.”

Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

“Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters.”

Ifs Thinking Men Looks Made Character Sex Christianity Novel Buddhism Majors Advantage Islam Made It Distinction Hinduism Judaism

Author:Katha Pollitt

“There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.”

Funny Stars Half Rocks Singing Hinduism Opera Showers Rock Star Funny Graduation Opera Singers Opera Singing Singing In The Shower

Author:Josh Groban

“The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.”

“As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.”

Thinking Mean Spiritual Individual Energy Path Buddhism Elements Simplicity Purity Hinduism Spiritual Energy

Author:Dave Davies

“There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.”

People Use Christian Islam Very Good Caring Justify Compassionate Hinduism Good Christian

Author:Desmond Tutu

“To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn't even belong on the list, since it doesn't link salvation to divine worship, but to me this is just a quibble. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all perceive human beings as flawed, wounded creatures in need of salvation, and all rely fundamentally on revelations that spell out how salvation is to be attained, either by departing from this life or rising above it.”

“The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were people with Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Native American and humanist perspectives, as well as individuals from advocacy groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Center for Law and Justice.”

“Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.”

Practice Theory Essence Hinduism Gita

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“I think when religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism - as well as Christianity and Judaism - were founded, at that time societies were generally male-dominated. So, therefore this social notion also influenced religion.”

Thinking Wells Social Christianity Buddhism Males Notion Hinduism Judaism Hinduism And Buddhism Christianity And Judaism

Author:Dalai Lama

“The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.”

Culture India Doctrine Contribution Hinduism Distinctive Ahimsa

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.”

Ifs Has Beens Left Teaching Effects Tragedy Visible Hinduism Gita Hindu Religion

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.”

God Hinduism Indefinable Vedas

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.”

God Philosophical Islam Practicals Hinduism Denied Uncompromising

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live.”

Ifs Dies Hinduism Untouchability

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.”

Doe Book Common Authority Prophet Hinduism Creeds Posse

Book:Hindu Dharma

Source: Hindu Dharma

“Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.”

World Hinduism Exclusive

Book:The Way to Communal Harmony

Source: The Way to Communal Harmony

“Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.”

Spirit Force Conservative Hinduism

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.”

Giving Hinduism Sanctions Untouchability

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“Hinduism is not a codified religion.”

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.”

Ifs Loses Universal Appeals Temples Hinduism

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.”

World Messages Glorious Hinduism Ahimsa

Book:The Way to Communal Harmony

Source: The Way to Communal Harmony

“Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.”

Ifs Heart Has Beens Temptation Hinduism Rama

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.”

Interpretation Hinduism Rejected New Life

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.”

Articles Hinduism Cows Preservation

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.”

World Protection Hinduism Cows

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.”

Ifs Giving Dying Give Me Died Unity Privilege Conception Hinduism

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works