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Quotable Quotes Part II

vgane said:
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali
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I guess we relate with the omniscient Universal consciousness
and draw out all the info we need directly from it (comparable to the Internet).
I have had similar experience in writing.
I will use some words which I never knew I know!
 
vgane said:
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked

Patanjali, Yoga Sutras
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Hug the Happy persons.
Pity the unhappy persons.
Celebrate the virtuous persons.
Ignore the wicked persons!
The perfect formula for the perfect peace of mind.
 
vgane said:
Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

Patanjali
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A snug bug under
a warm rug!!! :)
 
Sloth = Escapism under the guise of imaginary ill-heath!

Here is one more popular mode of escapism!!!

Escapism and Entertainment!


Escapism is the mental diversion from the daily stresses and strains, using entertainments and recreations. It includes all the actions done by us to fight depression, loneliness and sadness.

Several industries have popped up, helping people relax and relieve their tension. The most important forms of entertainment as escapism are fiction, literature, music, sports, television, internet and video games.

Even normal daily activities like eating and sleeping become means of escapism when indulged in excess. Karl Marx wrote that Religion is the opium of the people. Even religion, drugs, drinks, pornography are various means of escapism.

Some people are of the opinion that the very idea of escapism is fundamentally and exclusively negative. Escapists are branded as unhappy people who are unable to connect with reality, meaningfully.

There are many safe and acceptable forms of escapism as entertainments. An entertainment is an event, a performance, an activity designed to give pleasure to the audience. The various popular entertainments are games, amusement parks, cartoons, comics, dances, drama, gambling, museums, music, magic shows, night life, pets, tourism, toys and variety entertainment.

It is amazing how much of our time is spent in pursuit of entertainment and escapism. Some people seem to have all the free time in the world and they are determined to spend it watching “the idiot box” dawn to dusk! Eventually they themselves become “couch potatoes”.

Remember the golden rule; anything in excess is not good for you.

Visalakshi Ramani
 
Virtue

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.
John Milton

Most usually our virtues are only vices in disguise. :decision:
Duc De La Rochefoucauld.
 
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

Pythagoras
(570BC-495BC)
 
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“In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.”

Galileo Galilei
(1564-1642)
 
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ref # 709
Order is the First Law of Nature.
Mathematics is nothing but perfect order.
Laws of nature have to be the mathematical thoughts of God!
P.S.
I did not quote the original message since
it looks imposing and threatening in its size.
 
vgane said:
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men,
he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul
Pythagoras
(570BC-495BC)
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We need illumination to see God.
Truth is always one! Lies can be many!!
Small wonder that the ONE God prefers
the ONE truth to become His soul.
 
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration

Aurobindo (1872-1950)
 
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Aurobindo (1872-1950)
 
Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

Aurobindo (1872-1950
 

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