Poonja Quotes

#1. They're sensational!

Harry Styles

#2. Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Aristotle.

#3. I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

H.W.L. Poonja

#4. The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we do - what we're really good at, which is - which is theology and morality.

Rick Santorum

#5. This burden of Brahmins, no one understands. The sacrifice they make for knowledge, when the whole world sleeps they wake setting standards for the mediocre. But it is their arrogance that is taken note of. They have earned it, haven't they?

Aporva Kala

#6. Once upon a time in a basement library nook,
I stumbled upon my first favorite book.
Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled,
I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.

Tyrean Martinson

#7. The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine.

Tina Fey

#8. Look after everybody So that they are happy to see you. It is better to serve the devotee of god than to serve god himself.

H.W.L. Poonja

#9. The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

Saul Alinsky

#10. Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.

H.W.L. Poonja

#11. Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
Then the substratum will rise up to the top.
It is simple.
Follow this.

H.W.L. Poonja

#12. Let your will burn in this fire so that it takes you nowhere else. Let your self be burned in this fire of eternity, love and peace. Don't be afraid of this fire, it is love itself. This desire for freedom is the fire of love!

H.W.L. Poonja

#13. In the past I've been hard on the vegans. I've called them Prius-driving fascists, but now I am one of them. I have been turned to the dark side.

Craig Ferguson

#14. Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence ... you are dancing only for a little while you see ... a little while you are dancing.

H.W.L. Poonja

#15. When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

H.W.L. Poonja

#16. You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble.

H.W.L. Poonja

#17. Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

H.W.L. Poonja

#18. Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.

H.W.L. Poonja

#19. I'm not pshycic, nor do I have a business degree, a marketing degree, a journalism degree~ in fact I don't have any form of degree or knowledge

Nina Montgomery

#20. If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!

H.W.L. Poonja

#21. Look within,
There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru.
You are always Free.
There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.

H.W.L. Poonja

#22. It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

H.W.L. Poonja

#23. Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

H.W.L. Poonja

#24. If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

H.W.L. Poonja

#25. Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.

H.W.L. Poonja

#26. Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible?

Peter Singer

#27. Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Guy Verhofstadt

#28. If you don't know, then it's all right. There need not be any expectations. If there are no expectations, then you are free. If you expect, then you are in bondage. Choose whatever you want. Expectations are never fulfilled.

H.W.L. Poonja

#29. Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

John Green

#30. When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

H.W.L. Poonja

#31. Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.

H.W.L. Poonja

#32. Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away.

H.W.L. Poonja

#33. The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.

Joseph J. Lhota