“Trying to meditate with a head full of desires is like a plane trying to take off with too much cargo. Planes must offload the cargo to take flight. Just as humans must offload their desires to be able to meditate.” – Swami A. Parthasarathy
Quotes
“The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.” – Ramana Maharshi
“Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.” – Galileo Galilei
“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” – John Lennon
“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.” – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton Jr.
“The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler
“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let man lift himself by himself, let him not lower himself; his self alone is his friend, his self alone is his enemy.” – Rina Jakubowicz, The Yoga Mind
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