Inspired By Wisdom

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart. - Swami Vivekananda

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment, and purity through meditation and attains Reality. - Adi Shankara 

Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way adsorb it; do not become others. - Swami Vivekananda

Loud speech, a profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation. - Adi Shankara 

Meditation can turn fools into sages but unfortunately, fools never meditate. - Swami Vivekananda

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

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause. - Swami Vivekananda

Even after the Truth has been realized, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego. - Adi Shankara 

Take up one idea, make that one idea your life. Think of it, a dream of it, Live on that idea let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. - Swami Vivekananda

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within. - Adi Shankara 

If you think yourselves strong, strong you will be. - Swami Vivekananda

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar - Adi Shankara 

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