Vairagya Quotes

#1. Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized.

Sam Weiss

#2. It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

Billy Graham

#4. To my friends, I'm kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight,

Nate Silver

#5. Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume.

Wyndham Lewis

#6. The only wonder was that he should be in an under situation and not in the place of a head coachman like York;

Anna Sewell

#7. For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Rachel Carson

#8. For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must first
understand the nature of the force behind its existence.

Reid A. Ashbaucher

#9. The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. SOME DAYS I LOOK BACK ON MY LIFE AND I'M EXTREMELY IMPRESSED I'M STILL ALIVE. - T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones

#11. Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.

Frederick Lenz

#12. It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

Paul Horn

#13. I try not to remember them but very often memories force themselves on my consciousness; they are like stubborn relatives who invite themselves over even when you've made it clear that they are unwelcome.

Palash Krishna Mehrotra

#14. In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

Rumi

#15. It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

Metrodorus Of Chios

#16. He now understood deathbed dramas. Everybody thinks about death. But only one person thinks about it for himself. The others know that in the morning the sun will come through the blinds and their coffee will be served." From "The Reckoning

Georges Simenon

#17. Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total.

Swami Vivekananda