Sunday, November 14, 2010

Quotes for Today

Some great quotes that I was attracted to, in the preceding weeks:


Just talking spirituality, acting spiritual is no good. Transformation must happen.
                                              -- Sadhguru

The intricate maze of philosophy of different schools is said to clarify matters and reveal the Truth. But in fact, they create confusion where no confusion need exist. Why should confusion be created and then explained away? To understand anything there must be the Self. The Self is obvious. Why not remain as the Self? What need to explain the non-self?
                                              -- Ramana Maharishi


As you may have noticed there's nothing much to understand about being. "Can you explain ‘being' a bit more please? Stillness? I don't understand, can you explain stillness?" No, because there's nothing in it to explain; you can't look at it in a microscope or dissect it. "Aspects of Stillness, PhD." No. Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity.
                                            -- Eckhart Tolle


So on that day [of enlightenment], the young strapping man that I was – so full of myself, proud of everything that I was – suddenly cracked, fell apart, dissolved and disappeared. I desperately tried to pick up a few pieces; nothing remained. I couldn’t even keep a souvenir.
                                             -- Sadhguru


Whether or not you are engaged in a lot of "doing" in your life, "being" is primary. If you lose touch with being, you lose yourself in your mind, you lose yourself in doing, and you won't do any good for anybody, really.
                                             -- Eckhart Tolle