Assorted Sayings for More Meaningful Living

·       Great wisdom that philosophers can expend pages on can sometimes be expressed in just a few words.

·       Don’t let other people’s behaviour cause you to abandon your goals and thereby waste your life.

·       Many people consider unverifiable truth-claims as absolute truths.

·       Words can become a big barrier between you and God.

·       Realise God in silence, commune with God in words.

·       Maybe we’ll have to give an account for how we used every moment that we got on Earth.

·       Go somewhere because you have to, not because you want to flee from somewhere else.

·       To know what you want is at least as important as to know what you don’t want.

·       If, for some reason, you can’t get to tell a person about their bad behaviour, at least speak to God about it.

·       There’s just nothing that you can’t or shouldn’t speak to God about.

·       Maybe God made us in order to express Himself through us.

·       You do the work you need to. Leave it to God to make it bear the fruit it has to, as per His Plan.

·       There is likely no grave crime that has not been sanctioned by or in the name of Religion. There is likely no great goodness that has not been blessed by or in the name of Religion.

·       To become even a mechanic you need to undergo a course of training, so why not for the most delicate occupation, that of being the parent of a child?

·       Parents can learn great tips for wholesome parenting from other parents.

·       Few people know that every experience they (as well as others) undergo is a great source of learning and personal growth.

·       Compare how people used to die in the past—often in their home, in their bed, surrounded by family, with whom they shared their last words, and often in prayer—with many people dying today, with tubes stuffed into their noses, in a hospital bed!

·       If God doesn’t want to take work from you or if He thought you were of no use for His Plan for the world, He wouldn’t have sent you here, and nor would He still keep you here.

·       We must matter to God and His Plan for the world if He continues to keep us in the world.

·       What is the use if you have many friends but do not know God as your friend?

·       Millions of people don’t even know that one can have God as their friend.

·       Soon, you must discover the Teacher within yourself whose guidance you should follow.

·       Neither cling to nor detest this life. Simply live it through.

·       People have much time to engage in foolish banter and poisonous gossip with friends, but how much time do we spend conversing with God? Some may spend their whole life without doing that even once.

·       Few people even know that they can converse with God.

·       Not many people know that prayer can be a two-way conversation. Many think it is simply a one-way affair: saying some prescribed words to God, sometimes accompanied by the performance of a set of prescribed rituals.

·       Psychiatry works at the level of Mind. Spirituality works at a higher level, that of Spirit or Soul, bypassing Mind altogether.

·       What a philosopher may devote an entire chapter of a book to in order to explain a lover of God may express in just a few words or even through a single gesture.

·       Any interaction between two sentient beings is also a reciprocal exchange of vibrations that impact both of them. So, be careful about whom you interact with.

·       Prayer or worship should bring joy, not fear and gloom.

·       Owning considerable material wealth is not bad in itself. But to be owned by material wealth is.

·       If, as they say, all human beings are descended from the same first set of primal parents, Adam and Eve, it means all people are blood relations of each other. And if, as they might say, all living beings on Earth are descended from the first micro-organism that appeared on the Planet, it means all beings on Earth, humans as well as other, are descended from one and the same ancestor. And so, every pig or snake or tree is our sibling, and all beings, humans and others, on Earth are members of one single family!

·       If you haven’t introduced your child to God, you have failed as a parent.

·       The greatest inheritance you can bequeath to your children is love for, and faith in, God, good manners and virtuous ethics.

·       Try not to repeat the mistakes your parents made with you in your treatment of you children. You ought to know and do better, from your own personal experience.

·       If you are grateful for what you receive and express it, it is likely you will receive more.

·       God is invested, as it were, in your success.

·       What can be expressed in a smile often cannot be expressed in a long lecture.

·       Much of the conflict between diverse sets of believers is over Name and Form—mere names and forms.

·       Sometimes, the best response is silence. Sometimes, it is to send a blessing.

·       Each time you badmouth someone, you are depleting your own energy level and causing yourself to vibrate at a lower level. Each time you genuinely appreciate someone, you are raising your energy level and causing yourself to vibrate at a higher level. The same holds true with situations and other phenomena.

·       You can heal your mind and body by modulating your thoughts.

·       The Universe is constantly expanding in its embrace. And what about you? Are you constantly expanding in terms of Consciousness, growing towards embracing the entire Universe?

·       ‘Thank You, Lord’ is a great mantra to often repeat.

·       Everything around us is a miracle. Maybe it is also a miracle that, generally, we do not know this to be so!

·       You haven’t come all the way to Earth simply in order to lead a mediocre existence. What a waste it would be if that is what you do with the rare chance of coming here that you have received!

·       Little does the one who insults you know that they are actually providing you an opportunity to receive a blessing from God, which you will receive if you respond to their insult by sending them a blessing. So, know that every insult you receive is a great chance for you to be greatly blessed.

·       When others do for you what you yourself ought to do, they do you an immense disservice even though you, and also they, may think they are serving or helping you.

·       Eagerly seeking to learn from others is a mark of a person who seeks to grow.

·       Habitual disgust with others is a sign of self-disgust.

·       Appreciating goodness in people, situations, things, etc. is a sign of spiritual maturity.

·       You can’t rise by putting others down. To rise, try to enable others to rise. Rising thus becomes a collective process, not a solitary achievement.

·       If you want to know God to be as loving as they say He is, ask Him to express His love in a situation where you crave for Him to do so.

·       Sometimes, the best solution to a problem is so simple that you don’t want to accept it because you think the problem is so complex that it requires nothing less than a complex solution.

·       You can grow only if you want to.

·       Know a challenge to be an opportunity to receive God’s help.

·       There is always some good you can discern in any situation.

·       The same Creative Force that is causing the Universe to constantly expand is present inside you, too, seeking to expand through you.

·       To feel at home wherever you are, in whatever geographical, physical, social, cultural and religious context, is a big blessing.

·       If you think you already know, you won’t be able to grow.

·       Trusting God is the means to root out fear.

·       God is handling the entire humungous and constantly expanding Universe, so can’t He handle your life?

·       If you feel you have no good reason to continue to live, you can ask God to give you one or more such reason till He takes you away from here.

·       We become the food we eat.

·       If you want others to appreciate you, you must appreciate them.

·       It’s never too late to make amends for your bad behaviour, even if years have passed and the person you behaved badly with is no longer on Earth.