The Mother - Quotes

-01_Angelous Silesus.html

	Angelus Silesius, the Christian mystic, has said: “Eternal wisdom builds: I shall be her palace when she finds repose in me and I in her.”

-02_Antionne - The Healer.html

	Antione the Healer has said: “Often man is preoccupied with human rules and forgets the inner law.”

-03_Baha' Ullah.html

	Baha Ullah has said: “The seeker ought to avoid any preference of himself to another; he should efface pride and arrogance from his heart, arm himself with patience and endurance and follow the law of silence to that he may keep himself from vain words.”
	Baha-Ullah has said: “In the world of unity heaven and earth are one.”

-04_Bhagvad Gita.html

	In the Bhagavad Gita one reads: “All that man does comes to its perfection in knowledge. That do thou learn by prostration to the wise and by questioning and by serving them; they who have the knowledge and see the truths of things shall instruct thee in the knowledge.”

-05_Buddhism.html

	The Buddha has said : " There is more joy in one desire conquered than in a thousand desires satisfied "
	The Buddists Scriptures from the Chinese, tell us: “Let us watch over our thoughts.” “A bad thought is the most dangerous of thieves.”
	The Mahaparinibbana Sutta teaches thus: “To avoid the company of fools, to be in communion with the sages, to render honour to that which merits honour, is a great blessedness.”
	The Mahayana teaches thus: “When the disciple considering an idea sees rise in him bad or inhealthy thoughts, thoughts of covetousness, hatred or error, he should either turn his mind away from that idea, or concentrate it upon a healthy thought, or else examine the fatal nature of the idea, or analise it and decompose it into its different elements, or, making appeal to all his strength and applying the greatest energy, suppress it from his mind; these are removed and disappear these bad and unhealthy ideas and the mind becomes firm, calm unified full of vigour.”

-06_Carlyle.html

	Here is what Carlyle says about silence: “When one considers the clamorous emptiness of the world, words of so little sense, actions of so little merit, one loves to reflect on the great reign of silence. The noble silent men scattered here and there each in his province silently thinking and silently acting, of whom no morning paper makes mention, these are the salt of the earth."

-07_Chinese wisdom.html

	The ancient wisdom of China says: “He who know haw to find instructors for himself, arrives at the supreme mastery.... He who loves to ask, extends his knowledge; but whoever considers only his own personal opinion becomes constantly narrower than he was.”

-08_Chu-King.html

	One can read in the Chu-king: “It is easy to know what is good, but not so easy to practice it.”

-09_Confucius.html

	Confucius has said: “It is impossible to arrive at the summit of the mountain without passing through rough and difficult paths.”
	Confucius has said: “It is better to love the Truth than merely to know its principles, but better than loving the Truth is to make it one's sole delight and practice.”
	Confucius has said: “There is as much virtue in the humblest things as in the most sublime.”

-10_Emerson.html

	and this is from Emerson: “Real action is done in moments of silence.”
	Emerson has said: “It is god within who hushes the tongue of prayer by a sublimer thought. A voice speaks to us in the depths of the heart, ‘I am, my child, and by me are and subsist thy body and the luminous world. I am, all things are in me and all that is mine is thine. ’ ”

-11_Giordano Bruno.html

	Giordano Bruno has said: “The external forms are alone subject to change and destruction; for these forms are not the things themselves. Deliver thyself from the inconstancy of human things

-12_Hermes.html

	The great Egyptian initiate Hermes has said: “Things mortal change their aspect daily; they are nothing but a lie.”
	Here is a saying from Hermes: “The eyes of our mentality are incapable as yet of contemplating the incorruptible and incomprehensible Beauty.... Thou shalt see it when thou hast nothing to say concerning it; for knowledge, for contemplation are silence, are the sinking to rest of all sensation.”
	Hermes has said: “Raise thyself above every height, descend below every depth, assemble in thyself all the sensations of created things, of water, of fire, of the dry, of the moist; suppose that than art at once everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the heavens, that than wast never born, that than art still in the womb, that that art young, old, dead, beyond death; comprehend all at once, times, spaces, things, qualities, and thou shalt comprehend God.”

-13_Hu Shu.html

	Here are the paintings of a scholar who is at once an artist and yogi , exhibited with my blessings

-14_The Epistle to the Hebrews.html

	The Epistle to the Hebrews gives this advice: “Obey them that guide you and submit yourselves; for they watch over your souls.”

-15_Meng-Tse.html

	Here is a bit of Chinese Wisdom expressed by Meng-Tse: “Our inner self is provided with all necessary faculties.”

-16_Orphic hymns.html

	An advise from Orphic Hymns: “Love light and not darkness.”

-17_Proverb.html

-18_Ptah Hotep.html

	In very ancient Egypt Ptah Hotep said: “Do what thy Master tells thee; it is good.”

-19_Saadi the Persian poet.html

	Saadi, the Persian poet, has said: "Contemplate the mirror of your heart and thou shalt taste litle by litle a pure joy and unmixed peace.”

-20_Saint Paul.html

	Saint Paul says in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians: “And we beseech you to know Them who labour among you and are over you and admonish you and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.”

-21_Sutra.html

	We read in the Sutra in 42 articles: “The important thing is to practise what is taught. It is no use being with the Master if one does not oneself practise or cannot profit by it.”

-22_Swamy Ramakrishna.html

	Another saying of Ramakrishna: “One who thinks that his spiritual guide is merely a man, can draw no profit from his contact.”
	Here is another good advice from Ramakrishna: “Do not listen if one criticises or blames thy Master, leave his presence that very moment.”
	Here is on of Ramakrishna's sayings: “The company of saints and sages is one of the chief agents of spiritual progress.”
	Ramakrishna very nicely said: “Whenever thinks himself an imperfect and worldly soul, is really an imperfect and worldly soul; whenever seems himself divine, becomes divine. What a man thinks he is, he becomes.”
	Ramakrishna has said: “If you live one sixteenth part of what I teach you, you will attain the goal.”

-23_Book of Golden Precepts.html

	The Book of Golden Precepts tells us: “Silence thy thought and fix all thy attention on the Master within whom thou seest not yet, but of whom thou hast a presentiment.”
	In the Book of Golden Precepts we read this: “Before the soul can understand and remember it must be united to Him who speaks by His silence, as to the mind of the potter the form on which the clay is modelled.”
	The Book of Golden Precepts teaches: “One must learn to dissipate the shadow and live in that which is eternal. For that you must live and breathe in all as all you perceive lives in you; you must feel that you are in all things and all things in yourself.”

-24_Zendavesta.html

	In the Zendavesta we read: “Let this be thy aim to have always the right thought, right speech, right action.”

-25_Demophilus.html

	Demophilus has said: “Do what thou knowest to be good without expecting from it any glory. Forget not that the Vulgar are bad judge of good actions.”

-26_Lao Tse.html

	Lao Tse has said : " When the intelligence is master over the vital movements, then one has force "

-27_More Quotes.html

	This book closes with the end of the month. Let it be also the end of all your difficulties and troubles, and the beginning of an always happy life. With love and blessings.
	In the Book of Knowledge one can read: “When thou hast recognised the impermanence of all formations, thou shalt contemplate that which does not perish and remains for ever.”
	The following saying can be read in the Book of Wisdom: “We fight to win sublime Wisdom; therefore men call us warriors.”