Destiny

There is no destiny beyond and above ourselves, we are ourselves the architects of our future. All disturbances and challenges rise not only from our relationship with others, but in our attitude to all other things and beings.

Mind can make a Hell of Heaven, or a Heaven of Hell.

Character is formed from the repeated choice of thoughts and action.

The secrets of action is to get established in equanimity, renouncing all egocentric attachments, and forgetting to worry over our success and failures.

To give love is the true Freedom; To demand love is the oure Slavery.

Quotations from Swami Chinmayananda's writtings

Words of inspiration

• Success or achievement is not the final goal. It is the "spirit" in which you act that puts the seal of beautify upon your life.
• To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. Do the best and leave the rest.
• The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
• Not to do what you feel like doing is Freedom.
• To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
• He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.
• Sin is never in action, it is always in reaction. "Moksha" is not "Freedom from Action", but "Freedom in Action".
• Faith is: To believe what you do not see; The reward of which is: You see what you believed.
• A mind that has forgotten the past and the future, that is awake to the now, to the present, expressing the highest concentration of intelligence.
• A man of wisdom lives in the world but he is never of the world.

Find positive in negative

Let it become one of the fundamental rules of your life. Even if you come across a negative, find something positive in it. You will always be able to find something. And one day you become skillful at finding the positive in the negative, you will dance with joy. Try it, try the new visions of life. Think in terms of optimism, don't be a pessimist. The pessimist creates hell around himself and lives in it--you live in the world you create. Remember, there is not only one world, there are as many worlds as there are minds in the world. I live in my world, you live in your world. They are not only different, they never overlap. They are utterly different, they exist on different planes.

Osho: The book of wisdom

Life

Life of man is what is. That which is, is. All the trouble arises by having a conception of it.

Mind comes in. It has a conception. All trouble follows. If you are as you are, without a mind and its conceptions about various things, all will be well with you. If you seek the source of the mind, then alone all questions will be solved.

-Sri Ramana Maharshi

True master

He who instructs an ardent seeker to do this or that is not a true master. The seeker is already afflicted by his activities and wants Peace and Rest. In other words he wants cessation of his activities. Instead of that he is told to do something in addition to, or in place of, his other activities. Can that be a help to the seeker?

-Sri Ramana Maharshi

Words of Wisdom

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. If one has realized, he is that which alone is, and which alone has always been. He cannot describe that state.

He can only be That. Of course, we loosely talk of Self-realization for want of a better term.

That which is, is peace. All that we need do is to keep quiet. Peace is our real nature. We spoil it. What is required is that we cease to spoil it.

- Sri Ramana Maharshi

Bowl of Saki

By our thoughts we have prepared for ourselves the happiness or unhappiness we experience.

Fighting with another makes war, but struggling with one's self brings peace.

All our possessions, all that we collect in life, all these things which we shall have to leave one day are transitory; but that which we have created in our thought, in our mind, that lives. A person thinks, 'Some day I should like to build a factory.' At this time he has no money, no knowledge, no capability; but a thought came, 'Some day I should like to build a factory.' Then he thinks of something else. Perhaps years pass, but that thought has been working constantly through a thousand minds, and a thousand sources prepare for him that which he once desired. If we could look back to all we have thought of at different times, we would find that the line of fate or destiny, Kismet as it is called in the East, is formed by our thought. Thoughts have prepared for us that happiness or unhappiness which we experience.

The whole of mysticism is founded on this.

Joy, sorrow, love, all depend on our thought, on the activity of our mind. If we are depressed, if we are in despair, it is still the work of our mind; our mind has prepared that for us. If we are joyful and happy, and all things are pleasant, that also has been prepared for us by our mind. It is only when our mind works without control that unhappiness, sorrow, trouble, pain, or whatever we experience comes without our intention. No one could wish to create hell for himself; all would create heaven for themselves if they could; and yet how many allow their minds to create these things for them, regardless of their own intention.

'The present is the reflection of the past, and the future is the re- echo of the present.' Destiny is not what is already made. Destiny is what we are making. Very often fatalists think that we are in the hands of destiny, driven in whatever direction in life destiny wills; but in point of fact we are the masters of our destiny, especially from the moment we begin to realize this fact.

Man is responsible for his success and failure, for his rise and fall. And it is man who brings these about either knowingly or unknowingly.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Words of wisdom

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing. Such a person is more precious than the branch of the rose, for that has many thorns but only a few flowers.

-Hazrat Inayat Khan