Inspired By Wisdom

Experience is the only teacher we have. we may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth. - Swami Vivekananda

Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike. - Adi Shankara 

Strength is life; weakness is death. - Swami Vivekananda

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations, and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.   - Adi Shankara 

Take risks in your life, If you win, you can lead! If you lose, you can guide! - Swami Vivekananda

Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere. - Patanjali

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat. - Plotinus

In deep meditation, the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil. - Patanjali

Associate with people who are likely to improve you. - Seneca

Withdraw into yourself and look. - Plotinus

The obstacles that distract thought are the disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness. - Patanjali

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. - Seneca

It is precise because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it. - Plotinus

There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering. - Patanjali

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. - Seneca

I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. - Plotinus

The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world. - Patanjali

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca

We are not separated from the spirit, we are in it. - Plotinus