Top 100 Gian Quotes
#1. One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Frank Gehry
#2. I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.
Terence McKenna
#3. There are some stories that don't want telling," Gian said. "Some stories you tell, they make things worse. Not better.
Kameron Hurley
#4. This is your work now, Gian had thought, strewing death about him, but only live and some day, home again, turn your hand to something better, and in Sea-john life will be good, and safe, and full of love.
Kai Ashante Wilson
#5. Science in its attempt to unravel the mysteries of the Universe,
Has discovered the ultimate reality that we are all One.
Gian Kumar
#6. Experience is beyond knowledge, words and speech.
It is experience which shows us the real meaning of life.
Gian Kumar
#7. THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#8. You are what you desire.
You may live with desires and determine all that you want;
But your actions determine what and how much you receive.
Gian Kumar
#9. When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind,
He discovers the all-pervading Self.
Gian Kumar
#10. Do whatever you do, from eating fast food to living with mobile phones,
But always question the way in which you do.
Pause, look and see before doing,
Because there are many who would want you to blindly follow what they do.
Gian Kumar
#11. The realm of truth can only flourish,
When you allow the dualities to languish.
Gian Kumar
#12. Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.
Gian Kumar
#13. Mind gives us an existence in duality; Spirituality gives us the knowledge in non-duality. Unless we narrow this gap, we will never experience the ultimate reality.
Gian Kumar
#14. Universal or quantum consciousness emphasizes that we are all interrelated, interconnected and interdependent.
Gian Kumar
#15. Question who is the doer. Is it the mind or the Self?
Gian Kumar
#17. Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#18. God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#19. God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#20. An empty glass is perceived by the eyes as nothing,
in reality, this nothing is something, because it has air.
That something is what we call energy pervading everywhere,
for it is the breath of air which brings life into you.
Gian Kumar
#21. There is no cause and effect, when one is connected to spirit,
For when desires in a man diminish, he draws nearer to his spirit;
When desires in a man cease to exist, he becomes immortal.
Gian Kumar
#22. Peace is experienced when we accepts all the situations without any resistance whether good or bad.
Gian Kumar
#23. Never struggle against any obstacle; Observe, concentrate and witness;
Accept, indulge to transform and overcome,
For or against, but with equal respect and in totality.
Gian Kumar
#24. People are increasingly using the Internet for easy price comparisons. Also, the reliability of delivery of a product bought over the Internet has increased.
Gian Fulgoni
#25. Like and dislike, good or bad, God and devil, this and that,
Creates dualities and confuses mind to discriminate and make choices.
In Oneness, they all merge into surrender and acceptance.
Gian Kumar
#26. Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.
Gian Kumar
#27. The Root Cause of Our Problems is The Attachment To Possessions and #Desire for more.
#KnowThyself
Gian Kumar
#28. Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind.
Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself.
Self can be realized; not by knowledge but by revelation.
Gian Kumar
#29. A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#30. I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#31. Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience.
Gian Kumar
#32. Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature. Give us a billion dollars.' And if it doesn't change the world, then they say, 'There's an even deeper thing. Give us another billion dollars.'
Gian-Carlo Rota
#33. When we contemplate, we realize that one moment is not separate from the other;
What we need is to live from one moment to the next, as this is reality of the eternal now.
Gian Kumar
#34. At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#35. The purpose of my writing, whatever I write, is not what may be right or wrong;
But for when I leave this body, my writings should remain that others may share.
Gian Kumar
#36. I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#37. Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#38. A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#39. Being human is a divine gift. It is also not necessary that we overcome all our sins and become saints.We need to realize that we are born imperfect and will remain so until death.
Gian Kumar
#40. The degree of Spiritual growth is directly proportionate to the degree of personal freedom; your very own individuality.
Gian Kumar
#41. The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#42. The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#44. When the manifest and the un-manifest interact, there is oneness.
Gian Kumar
#45. There is an abundance of data available in the digital world and if it's harnessed effectively and correctly it can provide terrific insights.
Gian Fulgoni
#46. When you are positive; mind thinks, when you are negative; mind thinks,
For mind can never be in balance.
It is the Self, witnessing in awareness, Centered, which observes these two.
Gian Kumar
#47. I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#48. The idea of #God is just a path and a process;
To realize that you and Him are one.
Gian Kumar
#49. The seeker disappears when he realizes There is nothing to seek. In this awareness of nothingness, The Absolute tells him: What you seek, you already are.
Gian Kumar
#50. I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin or Beethoven, though Beethoven had a very difficult time writing melody, too.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#51. There is no such thing as right or wrong, it is just you who matters;
If you are right, you will not see wrong
If you are wrong, you will only see wrong.
Gian Kumar
#52. Food is everything.
It provides energy and strength to the elemental self;
With knowing self; evolving side by side.
Gian Kumar
#53. Mind is designed mainly to seek within its own parameters of knowing in self-interest.
Gian Kumar
#54. Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#55. Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#56. Awakening of intelligence into awareness,
Contemplation and realization is the sole purpose of #life.
Gian Kumar
#57. Everything is conceptual, designed and created by man to differentiate between the eternal and the ephemeral.
Gian Kumar
#58. Realization of the absolute Truth - about God, Self and oneness between the two - leads to wisdom. Understanding and experiencing this oneness is purity, a state of life where one can dispel all doubts and fears
Gian Kumar
#59. Duality is to exist; non-duality is divine. In the centre is that oneness From which they are separated.
Gian Kumar
#60. Neither bend from sorrows of the past,
Nor be anxious about future or get excited in the present.
Past, present and future are all manifested in AUM- the Self;
Which combines all three energies, Material, mental and sleep, in unison.
Gian Kumar
#61. Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#62. For an ideal #life, the body, mind and spirit have to be in perfect balance, and this can only happen if we operate our body from the depth of our awareness.
Gian Kumar
#63. God is but a supernatural spirit. He resides dormant in you, until you awaken to liberate yourself from this ignorance that you are body and mind.
Gian Kumar
#64. Living in oneness is in itself the highest form of
self-realization, beyond any enlightenment or higher
Consciousness.
Gian Kumar
#65. Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#66. Creativity is not any accumulated knowledge, coming from past to the present. The stage of creation is a spontaneous flash of intelligence, Energy merging with mind, to create a new beginning. Creativity and meditation are similar, as both are expressions of something beyond mind.
Gian Kumar
#67. A dependent mind is not free, and without freedom, enlightenment is impossible.
Gian Kumar
#68. The real identity is projected only through our deeds, what we leave behind, unchanging and merging with our ultimate reality.
Gian Kumar
#69. Reflect within yourself for that reflection is far better than when what you see in the mirror.
Gian Kumar
#70. I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#71. You may think or tell others that you are a realized person,
You may even convince others or deceive yourself;
But unless you have love for humanity and peace within,
Self-realization will never knock at your door.
Gian Kumar
#72. There are three reasons why I live in Scotland. First, I like silence, and you have to be a millionaire to buy silence in Italy. Second, I like cold weather. Third, in Italy I have too many relatives and know too many people, so I never get a quiet time.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#73. We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?
Gian-Carlo Rota
#74. Music is ... a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#75. As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being pulled around in a little wagon. The doctors didn't know what to do. So my nanny took me to the miraculous Madonna at Sacro Monte in Varese, the priest blessed me, and I walked.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#76. I am That is the supreme knowledge;
The understanding and experience of which dissolves everything,
Leading you towards completion.
Gian Kumar
#77. The purpose of both, awareness and consciousness, is to lead us towards this path of Oneness.
Gian Kumar
#78. Truth, love and God are all the same.
For in them there is purity;
In us there is separation into this and that.
Gian Kumar
#79. Self is one, personal and impersonal.
But it is only on the personal level that one comes to know the Self.
When you know the Self, you realize there are two types of knowledge.
First is to know how to exist and second is to know the all-pervading spirit.
Gian Kumar
#80. A wise man differs from the ordinary;
in understanding, knowing and experiencing what Truth is all about.
Gian Kumar
#81. I rebelled against the idea of the artist being what I call the 'after-dinner mint' of society. I didn't want them to be just the entertainers, but rather part of the community - the bread, not only the dessert.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#82. For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#83. Awareness is above intellect.
Intellect is above speech.
Speech is above knowledge.
For knowledge in itself is just a name.
Gian Kumar
#84. Happiest are those who have the temperament to accept sadness.
Gian Kumar
#85. The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads.
Gian Fulgoni
#86. Going beyond thoughts is merely to reduce the multiplicity of your thought.
Thoughts lead to words, words to language, language to action.
Action to realization, and back again to thoughts.
For the mind is made up of words, language and logic, until it dissolves into consciousness.
Gian Kumar
#87. The way you think is what you are.
Gian Kumar
#89. A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions.
Gian Kumar
#90. Positive or negative- use your mind to respect;
Surrender and accept both as one.
Gian Kumar
#91. In existence; you are matter, form or body,
Living from moment to moment in self-consciousness.
When you become formless in pure consciousness;
You dissolve into that absolute presence.
Gian Kumar
#92. It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#94. Nothing is known; for if you do not know yourself,
Life then remains only you, and just this and that.
Gian Kumar
#95. Language and Knowledge have certain limitations; they can go only up to a certain point, for beyond that lies reality.
Gian Kumar
#96. The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around.
He is convinced that these would befall only to others and not on to him.
Gian Kumar
#97. I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#98. I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#99. Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#100. We come from nothing, we go back into nothing.
That nothing is something, that something is everything.
That everything is the cosmos.
Is this a grand joke telling us? What we really are; just nothing.
Gian Kumar
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