Top 100 Quotes About Rama
#1. When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.
Frederick Lenz
#2. I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama .
Ramakrishna
#3. Curses are our conscious choices, so is grace," said Rama. Every error is an invitation to see our reality better, to realise where our consciousness is and where it can be. When we refuse to reach out to the potential of our consciousness, a curse befalls us.
Tomichan Matheikal
#4. Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
Edi Rama
#5. As a dialectical teacher, I have had many lives where I have taught Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and mysticism. I teach in many different modalites. But the theme that unites them - is love.
Frederick Lenz
#6. In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.
Frederick Lenz
#7. It is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.
Santha Rama Rau
#8. All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias against Westerners who dare to embrace an Eastern belief-system.
Frederick Lenz
#9. All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.
Frederick Lenz
#11. I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business.
Frederick Lenz
#12. Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
Edi Rama
#13. Memory. Such a strange phenomenon. What does a person remember, and what does he choose to forget? Perhaps he's not choosing, but forgetting. And what does he remember, and for what reason?
Rama Marinov Cohen
#14. No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.
David Frawley
#15. As an incarnation of love you put up with flack until it becomes detrimental to a person.
Frederick Lenz
#16. My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#18. If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros and cons of what action he should take, my suggestion is to give him the mantram album and say, "why don't you just write Rama, Rama, Rama a thousand times?
Eknath Easwaran
#19. I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.
Frederick Lenz
#20. Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.
Rama Swami
#22. I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
N. T. Rama Rao Jr.
#23. I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.
Frederick Lenz
#24. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.
Frederick Lenz
#25. I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Rama is a fairly common name in India. It symbolizes an individual who is interested both in enlightenment and martial arts. I do not claim to have any past life connection with the historical Rama. It's just a name I liked.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.
Rama Swami
#29. To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.
Rama Swami
#30. We experimented and we experienced many altered states of awareness. We used the power plants. I did that for a year or two.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence.
Rama Swami
#32. I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.
Frederick Lenz
#33. I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.
Frederick Lenz
#34. I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.
Frederick Lenz
#35. I think perhaps the greatest book ever written was Ulysses by James Joyce.
Frederick Lenz
#36. I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.
Frederick Lenz
#37. I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night.
Frederick Lenz
#38. The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.
Frederick Lenz
#39. God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God's who created them? There must have been someone who came before them. Therefore God is only One - One Final Absolute Existence. Everything else is a manifestation of Him.
Rama Swami
#40. In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.
Frederick Lenz
#41. In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.
Frederick Lenz
#42. The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow!
John Gaver
#43. My teacher knew that I always had a girlfriend. For some reason, he never said anything to me about it.
Frederick Lenz
#44. I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.
Edi Rama
#45. As my meditative experiences grew, I had wonderful relationships. I met the most wonderful women, who meditated and shared certain understandings that I had.
Frederick Lenz
#46. I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems.
Frederick Lenz
#47. It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.
Rama Swami
#48. I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.
Frederick Lenz
#49. I do have a staff of what some people would consider to be very attractive, chic women. They are not on the staff because they are attractive and chic but because they care about the welfare of others.
Frederick Lenz
#51. I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.
Frederick Lenz
#52. I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer.
Frederick Lenz
#53. India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them.
Santha Rama Rau
#54. You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.
Frederick Lenz
#55. A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?
Neil Gaiman
#59. It is more about how do you allow, shine through, or align with that which is already within you.
Danielle Rama Hoffman
#60. I have several Scottish Terriers. I find them to be the most wonderful dogs.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Rama's experiments suggest that some metaphors can be understood as mild forms of synesthesia. In
Jaron Lanier
#62. With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Our world is defined by the pace of change. We can all change the world.
Edi Rama
#64. Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.
Frederick Lenz
#65. Love can be the only answer. But snowboarding also works for me. Because I love snowboarding!
Frederick Lenz
#66. Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.
Trish Stratus
#67. I studied with a number of different teachers. But really, I've never studied with teachers. To be honest, the only thing that's ever interested me in life is eternity. Nothing else makes any sense to me.
Frederick Lenz
#68. For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. I dive all over the world: Fiji, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and many other places.
Frederick Lenz
#70. I'm only here for a while, so I'd like to do what I can.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?
Barry Mann
#72. Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.
Frederick Lenz
#74. Hinduism, the predominant religion (in India), believes in the existence of multiple gods, many of whom are androgynous (having both female and male characteristics). Many Hindu sects are devoted to the worship of specific deities, such as Rama, Vishnu, and Shiva.
James Peoples
#75. I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.
Frederick Lenz
#76. All the names of the ultimate truth are
given by human beings. Whether you call it Allah or God or Jehovah or Rama or Krishna,
these names are given by human beings and hence they cannot be eternal. You are playing
one sided game. The truth has nothing to do with these names.
Rahul Karn
#77. The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.
Frederick Lenz
#78. I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process.
Frederick Lenz
#79. Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.
Frederick Lenz
#80. Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.
Rama Swami
#81. One can know oneself only with one's own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else's. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?
Ramana Maharshi
#82. Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.
Arthur C. Clarke
#83. Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. Compromise in colors is grey.
Edi Rama
#85. One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.
Frederick Lenz
#86. If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.
Rama Swami
#87. Rama glanced at her whenever a beautiful object caught his eye. Every tint of the sky, every shape of a flower or bud, every elegant form of a creeper reminded him of some aspect or other of Sita's person.
R.K. Narayan
#88. One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'
Rama Swami
#89. Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama ... or something.
Daniel Palladino
#90. I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
Edi Rama
#91. When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
Edi Rama
#92. Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.
Erma Bombeck
#93. Whenever I work with anyone, it is an opportunity for them to become more professional and do something for someone else.
Frederick Lenz
#94. I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
Edi Rama
#95. One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!
Frederick Lenz
#96. I live in the constant newness of aspiration. Whatever I think, I ignore. Whatever I feel, I don't trust. Yet I listen to my thoughts and follow my feelings.
Frederick Lenz
#97. I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.
Frederick Lenz
#98. The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning.
Rama Swami
#99. Abandon pride, which is the same as Tamas-guna (darkness), rooted as it is in ignorance and is a source of considerable pain; and adore Lord Shri Rama, the Chief of the Raghus and an ocean of compassion.
(Page 787).
Tulsidas
#100. Lord Rama renounced his kingdom and became the most powerful king in the land. Buddha renounced the world and the world fell at his feet. Cornelia, my innocent girl, please do not believe that renunciation is to forsake power. Rather, it's the very means to power!' Chandragupta
Ashwin Sanghi
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