Sam Harris

“Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.”

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The Book of Woman by Osho

The Book of Woman delves into the mystique that is a woman. We get a view of woman as understood by Osho. The book goes into all the details of womanhood and explains all the functions of a woman. The topic is dealt with great sensitivity and vividness.

Osho talks about relationships, family, motherhood, birth control; all the issues that are central to the existence of a woman. A woman should not try to ape a man. She has an existence of her own and she should revel in her feminity and not be repulsed by it. Harmony in life can be achieved by a synchronisation between head and heart. The heart should rule a woman all the time and the head should follow and supply it with reason.

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Radhanath Swami

Human nature is that people reciprocate with what you give them.  If you are impersonal to others, most people will be impersonal to you.  If you do not show care and affection for others, people will probably ignore you. That is human nature.
So anyone can say, “Nobody loves me. Everybody is so impersonal to me.” But I have seldom found someone who extends himself to be caring, loving and affectionate towards others and doesn’t receive love from others. How you behave with others draws certain qualities from within them.  If you insult others, you draw out their anger.  If you praise others, you draw out their pride.  If you are affectionate to others, you can draw out whatever affection is within their hearts.  In giving, we receive.

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Swami Vivekananda

It is true that external nature is majestic, with its mountains, and oceans, and rivers, and with its infinite powers and varieties. Yet there is a more majestic internal nature of man, higher than the sun, moon and stars, higher than this earth of ours, higher than the physical universe, transcending these little lives of ours; and it affords another field of study.

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🌳🌳🌳List of books published in @SpiritualLibrary for the past months🌳🌳🌳

🔹Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

🔹The Power of Thought by Swami Paramananda

🔹The Little Book of IKIGAI by Ken Mogi

🔹Bhakti Yoga by Swami Vivekananda

🔹The Flight of the Eagle by J Krishnamurti

🔹Jnana Yoga by Swami Vivekananda

🔹The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma

🔹Sex matters: From Sex to Superconciousness by Osho


🔹The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

🔹The World As I See It by Albert Einstein


🔹The Book of Woman by Osho

Om Swami

We don’t make the oceans, mountains or the rivers. We don’t make sunlight, clouds or the rain. We simply bear a witness to the majestic creation around us. Yogic texts state that each one of us has an entire universe within us. The Bible, too, says that the kingdom of God is within us. And, that kingdom, this universe of our inner world, has a whole range of places – from exquisitely beautiful to excruciatingly painful. There are dark woods of fear, marshes of negativity, rotting trees of ego, cacti of jealousy, creepers of covetousness, a quagmire of desires and a stinking residue of hate.
Having said that, in our same inner world there are some hauntingly beautiful places, too. An ocean of bliss, tides of love, seasons of life, the colours of spring, a phase of autumn, the warm winter sun of forgiveness, and beautiful moonless nights studded with stars of our random acts of kindness. It’s all there. It’s all here, in us, within us.

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Haemin Sunim

Instead of a lottery ticket, buy some flowers for yourself and your family.
If you buy flowers and place them in the living room, you will feel like a winner every time and find abundant beauty whenever you pass by the living room.

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Ajahn Chah

Having been born we will experience ageing, illness, death and separation. These things are right here. We don’t need to look up at the sky or down at the earth. The Dhamma that we need to see and to know can be seen right here within us, every moment of every day.
When there is a birth, we are filled with joy. When there is a death, we grieve. That’s how we spend our lives. These are the things we need to know about, but we still have not really looked into them and seen the truth.
We are stuck deep in this ignorance. We ask, ‘When will we see the Dhamma?’ - but it is right here to be seen in the present.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

How do you see the person who is sitting on the platform? You not only see visually, but you also see intellectually; you are seeing that person through your memory, through your likes and dislikes, through your various forms of conditioning, and therefore you are not seeing, are you? When you really see something, you see without any of that. Is it not possible to look at a flower without naming it, without giving it a label—just to look at it? And is it not possible when you hear something lovely—not just organized music, but the note of a bird in a forest—to listen to it with all your being? And in the same way, can one not really perceive something? Because, if the mind is capable of actually perceiving, feeling, then there is only experiencing and not the experiencer; then you will find that conflict, with all its miseries, hopes, defenses, and so on, comes to an end.

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Thich Nhat Hanh

What do you think birth is? Most of us think birth means that something begins to exist where something didn't exist before. In our mind we have the concept that birth means that from nothing you suddenly become something; from no one you suddenly become someone. Most of us would define birth like that. Looking deeply, we see that this definition is not sound. From nothing, you cannot become something. From no one, you can never become someone.

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Leonardo da Vinci

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.’"

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Siddhartha- Herman Hesse

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” 

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Falling into Grace by Adyashanti

Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of mindfulness and spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery of our essential being. In his many years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. In Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights that will spark a revolution in the way we perceive life-through a progressive inquiry exploring the concept of a separate self and the choice to stop believing the thoughts that perpetuate suffering: "taking the backward step" into the pure potential of the present moment; why mindfulness and spiritual awakening can be a disturbing process; absolute union with every part of our experience and true autonomy-the unique expression of our own sense of freedom.

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The Tell Tale Brain by V.S Ramachandran
The brain remains a mystery to us. How can a three-pound mass of jelly that can fit in our palm imagine angels, contemplate the meaning of infinity, and even question its own place in the cosmos? Renowned neuroscientist Prof. V.S. Ramachandran takes us on a fascinating journey into the human brain by studying patients who exhibit bizarre symptoms and using them to understand the functions of a normal brain. Along the way he asks big questions: How did abstract thinking evolve? What is art? Why do we laugh? How are these hardwired into the neural mechanisms of the human brain, and why did they evolve? Brilliant, lucid, and utterly compelling, The Tell-Tale Brain is a path-breaking book from one of the leading neuroscientists.

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Khalil Gibran

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

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Gaur Gopal Das

When we live superficial lives, dedicated to serving ourselves, we are like surfers: riding the waves, but not seeing what is beneath them. We may satisfy our own needs and concerns by doing so, but we will never be truly fulfilled. However, when we practise spirituality, we become like divers: we submerge ourselves underneath the turbulent waves to find a pleasure much deeper, beyond hedonistic ideals. That profound joy is only possible when one feels love to serve others.

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Sri Krishna says to Arjuna

It is extremely difficult to obtain the vision you have had; even the gods long always to see me in this aspect. Neither knowledge of the Vedas, nor austerity, nor charity, nor sacrifice can bring the vision you have seen. But through unfailing devotion, Arjuna, you can know me, see me, and attain union with me. Those who make me the supreme goal of all their work and act without selfish attachment, who devote themselves to me completely and are free from ill will for any creature, enter into me.

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Upanishad Wisdom

As the sun shines and fills all space with light,
Above, below, across, so shines the Lord
Of Love and fills the hearts of all created beings.
 
From him the cosmos comes, he who teaches
Each living creature to attain perfection
According to its own nature. He is
The Lord of Love who reigns over all life.
 
He is the supreme creator, hidden
Deep in the mystery of the scriptures.
By realizing him the gods and sages
Attained immortality.
 
Under the hypnotic spell of pleasure
And pain, we live for ourselves and are bound.
Though master of ourselves, we roam about
From birth to birth, driven by our own deeds.
 
The Self, small as the thumb, dwelling in the heart,
Is like the sun shining in the sky.
But when identified with the ego,
The Self appears other than what it is.
It may appear smaller than a hair’s breadth.
But know the Self to be infinite.

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Swami Vivekananda

Those who grumble at the little things that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything.

Always grumbling they will lead a miserable life.
But those who do their duty putting their shoulder to the wheel will see the light and higher and higher duties will fall to their share.

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