Tatvamasi

The best place you can find God is within yourself.

Perseverance

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Ramana Maharishi

Self-Realization

Increase your capacity. Purify yourself. Acquire that gentle strength within. God will come and say to you, “I want to enter this living temple that you are.” Prepare yourself for that situation. Remove the impurities – and you will find that he who wants to know reality is himself the source of reality.

Swami Rama

Knowledge

Knowledge of theories that prove the existence of God is not as important as learning to discipline oneself, so that God can be experienced directly.

Swami Rama

Knowledge

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurthy

Atheism

It takes all kinds of people to make a world and the atheists by their tirades continue to unwittingly spread the cause of God.

Anonymous

History and Religion

The dead never return; the past night does not reappear; a spent-up tidal wave does not rise anew; neither does a person inhabit the same body over again. So from the worship of the dead past, we invite you all to the worship of the living present; from the regretful brooding over bygones, we invite you to the activities of the present; from the waste of energy in retracing lost and demolished pathways, we call you back to broad new-laid highways lying very near. Those that are wise, let them understand.

From an essay by Swami Vivekananda