All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.
- Walpola Rahula

“Silence is the main factor [to makes us progress].
In peace and silence you grow.”

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj (‘I Am That’)

Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.
- Francis of Assisi

Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards
- B.K.S. Iyengar

Jealousy is one of the blackest emotions that humans possess: it stems out of weakness and ultimately bears the bitter fruits of wickedness, which quite often end up poisoning the innocent victims, who have never done any harm to the possessor.
- Anurag Shrivastava

“When the mind is suspended through breath control, it must then be completely destroyed through one-pointed attention to that one reality.”

– Ramana Maharshi

Sense yearnings sap your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that permit vital waters to be wasted in the desert soil of materialism.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?
- Taisen Deshimaru

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
- Khalil Gibran

It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.
- Rahula

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye.

Adi Shankara

Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.
- Francis of Assisi

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In this silence, this quiet, the Word is heard.
There is no better method of approaching this Word than in silence, in quiet:
we hear it and know it aright in unknowing.
To one who knows naught it is clearly revealed.”
~ Meister Eckhart

When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.
- Sun Tzu

“A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.”

The lazy state of just being and shining [as ‘I am’] is the state of Self, and that is the highest state that one can become.
- Ramana Maharshi

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
- Khalil Gibran

May I never tire of expressing myself
may I find contentment in listening to you
may there be no constraints of time
and may we be bound together as a single knot
you, time, and I.
- Sanu Sharma