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    Quotes To Enrich Life & Spirit - From Buddha through Gandhi to Zen
    Quotes To Enrich Life & Spirit - From Buddha through Gandhi to Zen
    Quotes To Enrich Life & Spirit - From Buddha through Gandhi to Zen
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    Quotes To Enrich Life & Spirit - From Buddha through Gandhi to Zen

    By Anthony Morganti

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    A collection of the greatest quotes about life, love and spirituality from varied sources such as Mother Teresa, Buddha, Gandhi, Lao Tzu, Osho and many others. The book has two main sections with the first having the quotes divided by their topic such as Love, Happiness, Anger, etc. The second part of the book has specific quotes from Buddha, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Lao Tzu and Zen Quotations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnthony Morganti
    Release dateOct 30, 2011
    ISBN9781465858283
    Quotes To Enrich Life & Spirit - From Buddha through Gandhi to Zen
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    Anthony Morganti

    Anthony Morganti lives in Western New York with his wife and three sons.

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      Quotes To Enrich Life & Spirit - From Buddha through Gandhi to Zen - Anthony Morganti

      CHAPTER ONE

      Spiritual Quotes by Topic

      Anger

      Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less. - Osho

      Anger simply shows that something in you is hurt, some wound is there. - Osho

      Anger transformed becomes compassion, sex transformed becomes prayer, greed transformed becomes sharing. - Osho

      It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire. - Sri Ramakrishna

      You are angry, and you watch it. You are not just angry, a new element is introduced into it: you are watching it. And the miracle is that if you can watch anger, the anger disappears without being repressed. - Osho

      One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him. - Sri Ramakrishna

      What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger will arise and will be consumed by awareness. One cannot be angry with awareness and one cannot be greedy with awareness and one cannot be jealous with awareness. Awareness is the golden key. - Osho

      Attachment

      Free yourself from attachment. - Buddha

      All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality. - Osho

      Work performed with attachment is a shackle, whereas work performed with detachment does not affect the doer. One who works like this is, even while working, in solitude. - Ramana Maharshi

      As your attachment to the world diminishes, your spiritual knowledge will increase. Attachment to the world means attachment to 'woman and gold'. - Ramakrishna

      Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool -- sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more. - Osho

      Non-attachment is like a fire that can burn the binding power of past samskaras. Non-attachment does not mean indifference or non-loving. Non-attachment and love are one and the same. Non-attachment gives freedom, but attachment brings bondage. - Swami Rama

      You will feel restless for God when your heart becomes pure and your mind free from attachment to the things of the world. Then alone will your prayer reach God. A telegraph wire cannot carry messages if it has a break or some other defect. - Ramakrishna

      Don't be attached to the things of the world, and don't be attached to the things of the other world, because things are things. It makes no difference whether they are of this world or the other world -- attachment is the problem. - Osho

      Being free from all distractions, he can undertake his practice wholeheartedly. Non-attachment enriches the nature of his practice. Practice combined with non-attachment helps him to continue his search until he reaches the goal. - Swami Rama

      Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises. - Osho

      Remember remain alert that you don t get too much attached to the accidental -- and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation -- all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things. - Osho

      Awareness

      Be the witness of your thoughts. - Buddha

      Walk, with awareness. Eat, with awareness. Breathe, with awareness. - Osho

      Higher dimensions of Awareness means Higher dimensions of energy.  - Jaggi Vasudev

      Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking. - Swami Rama

      Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about. - Osho

      You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self. - Ramana Maharshi

      Being pure consciousness - do not disturb your mind with thoughts of for and against. Be at peace and remain happily in yourself, the essence of joy. - Astavakra Gita

      To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one’s thoughts. - Swami Rama

      Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing much, just watching as one watches birds flying in the sky. Just Lying down on the ground and watching, nothing to do, indifferent. Not your concern really, where they are going; they are going on their own. - Osho

      To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one’s thoughts. - Swami Rama

      By becoming more aware, one BECOMES more aware. There is no other method to it. It is a simple process. Whatsoever you are doing, do it with such consciousness as if it is a question of life and death; as if a sword is hanging over you. - Osho

      Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything—the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing— being extensively aware, which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

      Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence. So those three words you have to remember: relaxation, thoughtlessness, silence. And if these three words are no more words to you but become experiences, your life will be transformed. - Osho

      Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

      The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you bring a lamp into the room -- and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself. - Osho

      In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding. In this process when thought and feeling unfold themselves, which is only possible when there is neither acquisition nor acceptance, then there comes an extensional awareness, all the hidden layers and their significance are revealed. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

      Bliss

      If a man enjoys the Bliss of God, he doesn't enjoy the world. Having tasted divine bliss, he finds the world insipid. If a man gets a shawl, he doesn't care for broadcloth. - Ramakrishna

      Use this energy of watchfulness for a transformation of your being. It can bring you so much bliss and so much benediction that you cannot even dream about it. - Osho

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