Anagarika Govinda Quotes

#1. The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

Anagarika Govinda

#2. The faculty of continual transformation ... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind

Anagarika Govinda

#3. Sometimes a glance, a few casual words, fragments of a melody floating through the quiet air of a summer evening, a book that accidentally comes into hands, a poem or memory-laden fragrance may bring about the impulse which changes and determines our whole life.

Anagarika Govinda

#4. Oneness is the perfect expansion
Of our inner reality.
Let our hearts oneness only increase
To make us feel
That we belong to a universal world ? family,
And this world ? family
Is a fulfilled Dream of God.

Sri Chinmoy

#5. I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

Lydia Leonard

#6. It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

John Muir

#7. A real Guru's initiation is beyond the divisions of sects and creeds: it is the awakening to our own inner reality which, once glimpsed, determines our further course of development and our actions in life without the enforcement of outer rules.

Anagarika Govinda

#8. Adventure:' there's a word that worked on us both like a charm.

Therese Anne Fowler

#9. To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.

Anagarika Govinda

#10. The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.

Anagarika Govinda

#11. [On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal:] He reminded me of an alien.

Kelly LeBrock

#12. The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

Anagarika Govinda

#13. The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened mind, which manifests itself on the plane of timeless meditative vision.

Anagarika Govinda

#14. Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

Anagarika Govinda

#15. The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality, but is capable of creating a new reality by transforming the inner as well as the outer world

Anagarika Govinda

#16. Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.

Anagarika Govinda

#17. Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#18. The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul.

Anagarika Govinda

#19. Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.

Thomas Hobbes

#20. Do not keep what you have selfishly bottled up; pour it out, share it with the world.

Anagarika Govinda

#21. Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

Anagarika Govinda

#22. Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences

Anagarika Govinda

#23. All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#24. The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

Charlie Munger