Inspired By Wisdom

All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. - Swami Vivekananda  

You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either. - Adi Shankara    

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

The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.   - Adi Shankara 

If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults..! - Swami Vivekananda

There is sorrow infinitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness. - Adi Shankara 

Whatever you believe, that you will be, If you believe yourselves to be ages, ages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you. - Swami Vivekananda

Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognize your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace. - Adi Shankara 

You should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do a slave’s work. - Swami Vivekananda

To be free from bondage the wise person must practice discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognizing Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss. - Adi Shankara

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