02/16/2011
If you want to know whether your friendship with this person (of the opposite sex) is real or hormone-induced, just ask yourself whether you would have been friends if the two of you were the same sex.
02/10/2011
Suffering of humankind is not because of not knowing what the universe is made of or how gravity works. It is because people haven't figured out their own mind. So, which knowledge is important?
02/10/2011
Don't judge a person's greatness by his knowledge, or status, or education, or eloquence, or personality, or fan-following... The only measure of greatness is the quality of one's ideas; how useful they really are. E.g. Buddha is infinitely greater than Newtons and Einsteins.
02/06/2011
For enlightenment you don't have to believe that the world as you see it is an illusion. When you are there you'll know it.
02/03/2011
Only he who knows he can not know EVERYTHING, in a way, knows everything.
01/31/2011
Do not go truth seeking for the sake of itself. Do it to bring ease to your life. If the truth you have discovered doesn't ease your life, it's useless. If it does, it's all there was to seek.
01/30/2011
Feeling insecure in relationships is not a disease, but a beginning of realization of truth.
01/29/2011
Spiritual enlightenment does not mean knowing everything. It means knowing enough to never fall prey to suffering.
From Understanding spirituality in a few words
01/28/2011
Any meaning of life is a delusion. This very knowledge would make a great difference in the way one lives life.
01/28/2011
In the inherently meaningless universe one must be deluded to see a cause higher than one's own life.
01/27/2011
Whether the universe has always existed or it has a beginning are the questions absolutely immaterial.
01/26/2011
The ultimate security is only when you totally believe in yourself alone.
01/20/2011
Don't be friendly with the stupid, or he will start thinking you are one of his kind.
01/17/2011
Teaching is a good profession only if you have enormous amount of creativity in you coupled with ceaseless passion for learning.
01/15/2011
Crisis is woven in the very fabric of existence. No amount of spiritual development can rid creatures of crises. It can only make us immune to the suffering and enable us face life in its true form with utmost joy.
01/14/2011
01/13/2011
To secure and maximize your own well-being is your first moral obligation.
01/13/2011
Trusting a person is but some kind of commitment assumed. Any commitment, seriously dwelt on, is absurd.
01/11/2011
When EVERYTHING you see around is disappointing, that means you need to have a new (and improved) perspective!
01/11/2011
If you don't judge people then what is the difference between you and a dog.
01/11/2011
Just because our judgments about other people are sometimes wrong that doesn't mean being judgmental is wrong.
01/10/2011
Putting trust in people is a lame way of getting yourself a sense of security.
01/10/2011
Spirituality is pure truth-seeking about your being. It has nothing to do with God, religion and mysticism.
From Understanding spirituality in a few words
01/09/2011
Do not be kind to the undeserving. For then his complacence will do no good to anyone.
01/05/2011
Enlightenment is a gradual process. He who says he is enlightened since certain moment is probably in some kind of delusion.
12/18/2010
Romantic love is a magnificent trap laid by the hormones to induce mating.
12/11/2010
It's not what I am getting in life. It's what I am doing with what I have got, that decides the quality of my life.
12/05/2010
Equality is not in equal distribution of wealth, but in provision of equal opportunities to earn it.
11/27/2010
If you play it only to win then you will miss life completely, because wining is not a part of the game called life.
11/26/2010
You don't have to get rid of anything. Just embrace the reality and everything that is unreal, useless, should rid you automatically.
11/24/2010
Whether you be yourself or try to fit into others' expectations, the fact is that in the end, you are and will remain alone. So why not be yourself.
11/19/2010
An enlightened person lives on the tune of Nature. He doesn't need to know what is moral or immoral.
11/17/2010
It amazes me to see people who make issues out of virtually harmless cartoons like Pokemon for infusing violence in kids' minds buying atom bombs and missiles for their kids on abhorrent festivals like Diwali.
11/17/2010
Not intelligence, sometimes I think, stupidity is the most amazing thing humans possess!
11/09/2010
Happiness shows how life is treating you. Contentment reflects in how you are treating life.
11/08/2010
There is always at least one criterion by which everyone discriminates between people. Absolute non-discrimination is impossible, and even unfair!
11/03/2010
Money has this nasty characteristic. It seldom goes to the most deserving one.
11/02/2010
Inequality is not injustice. Injustice is the system that allows the undeserving man to rise and cripple the deserving one.
10/27/2010
When you outsource morality and critical thinking to authorities (like religions) you are harming yourself the most, because in the long run you are crippling yourself.
10/20/2010
Optimism is invented to cure the sickness called pessimism. Realists, being of good health already, don't require it.
10/16/2010
Acknowledging the reality worse than your imagination is not pessimism. Pessimism is when you imagine worse than the reality.
10/15/2010
Being highly intelligent and not having attitude involves certain vulnerability.
10/13/2010
It's foolish of one to be proud of something which has happened without one's willful involvement.
10/08/2010
Biggest crimes in the world are committed by so-called protectors of the society.
10/04/2010
No action is in itself immoral. Something you do is immoral only when you know that it will directly or indirectly harm you and you still do it.