Swami Brahmananda Quotes

#1. A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased
replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.

Brian James

#3. The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.

Swami Brahmananda

#4. There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

Jim Croce

#5. In the treaty were provisions for the hundred thousand veterans left maimed and irrevocably mute throughout the city. As is the way of things, their sacred places and comforts have dwindled to a lonely strip of shoreline and a polite nod whenever they are passed in the street.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Swami Brahmananda

#7. I think passion is the magnet to anything.

Rush Limbaugh

#8. The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you also must endure its pains.

Swami Brahmananda

#9. Thinking that we have to always burn our candle at both ends in order to benefit others is perhaps the greatest idiot compassion of all.

Ethan Nichtern

#10. Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.

Adam Driver

#11. I think this is the kind of thing where we're rapidly moving toward an age where most of the populace will be almost unable to imagine life without an Internet component interlocked with it.

Chuck Klosterman

#12. Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.

Mooji

#13. The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

Swami Brahmananda

#14. And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.

Ruth Pitter

#15. Meditate, meditate, meditate. Then you will find that people suffer for no reason when there is the mine of bliss in everyone's heart. Then your heart will go out in sympathy and compassion for everybody.

Swami Brahmananda

#16. However you try to define meditation, it's not that.

Swami Brahmananda

#17. Trust life. Trust your Creator. He will not deliver you to anything but the best.

Pooja Ruprell