Gurumayi Quotes

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

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#2. 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

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

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

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

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#5. We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd.

Janna Levin

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

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

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

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#8. 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

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

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#10. It's easy to let your family suffer for your work. Many of us do this because we see our jobs as a means of maintaining our families. We have thoughts such as 'I need to make more money so that my kids can go to college debt-free.'

Travis Bradberry

#11. 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

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

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#13. So much universe, and so little time.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I've been around so long and no matter if I've done good things or bad things, or my personal life has been good or bad, the fans have always stuck with me.

Hulk Hogan

#15. Of the nineteen hijackers that day, fifteen were Saudi.

Patrick Cockburn

#16. Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is.

John Green

#17. Do you ever tell the truth?"
"Once. In fourth grade. It was overrated.

Gemma Halliday

#18. Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

Mario Cuomo

#19. 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

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

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#21. Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

Christopher Dawson

#22. I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.

Frankie Valli

#23. 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

#24. And Tiffany knew that if a witch started thinking of anyone as "just" anything, that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels, and a too-small stove ... and to pain, and terror, and horror and the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

#25. Lavender's my favorite scent, after White-Out and bacon rind. I sat down on the steps, not sure where to go next.
A July afternoon yawned.
Mirage puddles'd shimmered on the Welland road as I rode here.
I could've gone to sleep on the baked doorstep.
Little naked ants.

David Mitchell

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

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

#27. 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