Consciousness

"Lead me from unreal to real, from darkness to light, and from death to immortality." ~ Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanisad (1.3.28.)

"If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

"Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart." ~ Adi Shankara

Creation, Preservation, and Destruction.

"We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination." ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender. —Ramana Maharshi

Strange that one who is unattached to the things of this world and the next, who can discriminate between the transient and the timeless, who yearns for freedom, should yet fear the dissolution of the body. ~ Ashtavakra Gita

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. —Paramahansa Yogananda

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know. —Swami Vivekananda

Rain-water never stands on high ground, but runs down to the lowest level. So also the mercy of God remains in the hearts of the lowly, but drains off from those of the vain and the proud. —Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. —Jiddu Krishnamurti

Strive not, waste not your energy to fight against or to make friends with your enemy, friend, son or relative. Seeking the Self everywhere, lift the sense-of-difference born out of ‘ignorance’. —Adi Shankaracharya

"The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it." ~ Ramakrishna