Advaita Vedanta Quotes

#1. Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.

Ramana Maharshi

#2. Remind me again why I put up with you?
'Cause you sold me your soul for five bucks, and now you must submit to my will?' I still had the sheet of paper, written in his untidy fifth-grade scrawl. Gideon David Belmonte. One soul.

Bethany Frenette

#3. We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Joseph Brodsky

#5. Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.

Chico Buarque

#6. It Is Hard To Let Go Of The Past If You Have Not Learned From The Past. As Soon As You Learn And Let Go, You Improve The Present Today.

Spencer Johnson

#7. I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything
what a relief!

David R. Hawkins

#8. There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor achievement.
This is the final truth.

Ramana Maharshi

#9. Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not.

Floyd Henderson

#10. 'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.

Lenny Abrahamson

#11. I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

Edward Snowden

#12. Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Charles Bukowski

#13. People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.

Wayne Dyer

#14. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. stronger than mountains.
a place where my heart
feels the safest-
underneath his shirt.

Sanober Khan

#17. You do not need any preacher or prophet to learn about God. The teaching is spread on the trees and the mountains, on the stars and the river, on the Sun and the moon. The ultimate teaching is written in your heart. You just need to wake up and see.

Banani Ray