Inspired By Wisdom

  What the world calls sorrow is really a joy to the poet. ― Munshi Premchand

  I came for the sake of love-devotion; seeing the world, I wept. ― Mirabai  

  Just as dry wood burns quickly, similarly a man of apes (hunger) is taken aback at every bit. ― Munshi Premchand जिस तरह सूखी लकड़ी जल्दी से जल उठती है, उसी तरह क्षुधा (भूख) से बावला मनुष्य ज़रा-ज़रा सी बात पर तिनक जाता है।

  Don't forget love; it will bring all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe. ― Mirabai  

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. ― Munshi Premchand  

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is. - Adi Shankara   

Talk to yourself once in a day.. otherwise, you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world. - Swami Vivekananda  

What is an inquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal. - Adi Shankara  

You are the creator of your own destiny. - Swami Vivekananda

Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun. - Adi Shankara  

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