Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Quotes

#1. Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#2. All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Thomas Carlyle

#3. Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#4. The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#5. All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

Jon Johansen

#6. Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

Mark Twain

#7. Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#8. Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#9. Skyler Luiken."
"Luke Skywalker?"
"That never grows old," Skyler growled.

Jason M. Hough

#10. For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. When you are unsure about the future, keep doing what is in front of you with all your heart and with love, and what is meant for you will find you.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#12. You must ... know that you are great. Never forget that. It is where true joy lies.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#13. What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession
with personal demands, needs and disappointments?
The answer is: Whatever you do, may it benefit everyone.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#14. I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.

Michael Dirda

#15. Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#16. To put it bluntly, your flesh is a weasel, a poser, and a selfish pig. And your flesh is not you. Did you know that? Your flesh is not the real you.

John Eldredge

#17. Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#18. When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#19. You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#20. Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.

Jane Green

#21. Meditate. Let the light of the heart engulf you.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#22. Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#23. I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

Pink

#24. All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

#25. God is without visible form, yet in the heart, God is revealed.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#26. To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Charles Spurgeon