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A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.
If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.
Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.
When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.
If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that.
Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.
At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.
There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.
The very way you breathe, sit, stand, eat, walk, work - everything can become yoga. You can use any process of life to transcend your limitations.
Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with outside situations effortlessly.
In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.
On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.
Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.
If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.
If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.
I was standing in the street with people walking past me and I could feel my face evaporating. I thought I was on fire as the acid ate at my skin.
Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.
The process of wanting to clean India is not an overnight job. At the same time, if we can inspire all citizens, it would happen much more quickly.
We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.
Devotion means who you are should merge with what you are doing. Otherwise, whatever your activity may be, it will not be of any great significance.
If you think you are big, you will become small. If you are willing to become an absolute nothing, you will become larger than creation and Creator.
If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.
I don't want people to feel sorry for me or pity me - I want people to know that what got me through was human spirit and everyone has that in them.
I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the longing to break them will come.
The world is more competitive and social media drives this. It's woman against woman when it comes to appearance, possessions and friendship circles.
My feminist icon is Michelle Obama. To me she represents the definition of a strong and intelligent woman who has used her platform for so much good.
My younger self wouldn't recognise me at all. She would think I was quite serious, organised and practical, but I've had to be to run the foundation.
The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have.
In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?
In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are trapped with people who you do not care for, it feels like a concentration camp.
It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to make a plan and fulfill it.
Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.
In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.
Anybody can play decent golf like me, but people trip on their own minds. They need to create a little distance between what they think and what they do.
I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.
Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another.
I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.
Anywhere, you're going to get people who are ignorant or rude but it's not the whole of society. I don't think my life is doomed because I look like this.
To me, it's the kind of interesting question the human race should be investing in. Is there intelligent life out there? Are there other beings out there?
The most fundamental strength of India is that we are a land of seekers. Seekers of truth and liberation. Not a land of believers. We are a godless nation.
AI2 was born from a desire to create a system that could truly reason about knowledge, rather than just offer up what had been written on a subject before.
It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision and execution of the artist.
Help those who make mistakes; your feet walk on the same ground, and even if you possess the possibility to correct them, you have no right to censure them.
I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.
I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.
I don't think many people stare at people in wheelchairs because we see it regularly. I suppose if you see more in the media it will take away the curiosity.
If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'
The main reason I started The Katie Piper Foundation was because I had treatment abroad that I wanted other burns survivors in this country to have access to.