Gian Quotes & Sayings

Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind.
Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself.
Self can be realized; not by knowledge but by revelation. — Gian Kumar

The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around.
He is convinced that these would befall only to others and not on to him. — Gian Kumar

Duality is to exist; non-duality is divine. In the centre is that oneness From which they are separated. — Gian Kumar

The material world claims, 'I am what I think', whereas spiritualism says, 'I am, therefore I think'. — Gian Kumar

Music is ... a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone. — Gian Carlo Menotti

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. — Gian Carlo Menotti

Neither bend from sorrows of the past,
Nor be anxious about future or get excited in the present.
Past, present and future are all manifested in AUM- the Self;
Which combines all three energies, Material, mental and sleep, in unison. — Gian Kumar

The Root Cause of Our Problems is The Attachment To Possessions and #Desire for more.
#KnowThyself — Gian Kumar

It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love. — Gian Carlo Menotti

Self is one, personal and impersonal.
But it is only on the personal level that one comes to know the Self.
When you know the Self, you realize there are two types of knowledge.
First is to know how to exist and second is to know the all-pervading spirit. — Gian Kumar

Reflect within yourself for that reflection is far better than when what you see in the mirror. — Gian Kumar

Mathematicians - for what they do - are really poorly rewarded. And it's a very competitive field, almost as bad as being a concert pianist. — Gian-Carlo Rota

God gives you the gift of melody or He doesn't - it's as simple as that. — Gian Carlo Menotti

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness. — Terence McKenna

The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads. — Gian Fulgoni

Positive or negative- use your mind to respect;
Surrender and accept both as one. — Gian Kumar

I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive. — Gian Carlo Menotti

Realization of the absolute Truth - about God, Self and oneness between the two - leads to wisdom. Understanding and experiencing this oneness is purity, a state of life where one can dispel all doubts and fears — Gian Kumar

When man manages his intellect and steadies his mind,
He discovers the all-pervading Self. — Gian Kumar

Never struggle against any obstacle; Observe, concentrate and witness;
Accept, indulge to transform and overcome,
For or against, but with equal respect and in totality. — Gian Kumar

Food is everything.
It provides energy and strength to the elemental self;
With knowing self; evolving side by side. — Gian Kumar

A dependent mind is not free, and without freedom, enlightenment is impossible. — Gian Kumar

Take care of your total being in mind, body and spirit. — Gian Kumar

Our mind is mysterious, a wonderful force, which emits our thoughts, aggressively residing and thriving in our egoistic self. Remove all thought and there will be no mind, world, perception, sensation, feeling, conscious experience or anything at all. — Gian Kumar

Spiritual awareness is that level of reality,
which will take you beyond the mere fact of
living in the physicality of the body and mind
into the realm of your consciousness. — Gian Kumar

Being human is a divine gift. It is also not necessary that we overcome all our sins and become saints.We need to realize that we are born imperfect and will remain so until death. — Gian Kumar

THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Language and Knowledge have certain limitations; they can go only up to a certain point, for beyond that lies reality. — Gian Kumar

Nothing is known; for if you do not know yourself,
Life then remains only you, and just this and that. — Gian Kumar

When we know the truth, it sets us free. — Gian Kumar

The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. — Gian-Carlo Rota

There is no doubt that every single body cell is influenced by the way we think and feel. — Gian Kumar

The seeker disappears when he realizes There is nothing to seek. In this awareness of nothingness, The Absolute tells him: What you seek, you already are. — Gian Kumar

A person fully in the Self is formless, birth less and deathless.
He is inside, outside and above everything that is known.
In purity he is absolute and in spirit he is eternal. — Gian Kumar

You may think or tell others that you are a realized person,
You may even convince others or deceive yourself;
But unless you have love for humanity and peace within,
Self-realization will never knock at your door. — Gian Kumar

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do. — Gian Carlo Menotti

Truth, love and God are all the same.
For in them there is purity;
In us there is separation into this and that. — Gian Kumar

Our physical identity or what I may call the social identity is the most interesting. — Gian Kumar

The degree of Spiritual growth is directly proportionate to the degree of personal freedom; your very own individuality. — Gian Kumar

Experience is beyond knowledge, words and speech.
It is experience which shows us the real meaning of life. — Gian Kumar

Science in its attempt to unravel the mysteries of the Universe,
Has discovered the ultimate reality that we are all One. — Gian Kumar

How did he do it? He must be a genius! — Gian-Carlo Rota

In existence you are body and mind, but in absolute you dissolve.
In existence there is sorrow; in absolute there is bliss.
In existence there is change; in absolute there is reality.
In existence you are known; in absolute you are energy
In existence you are thought, in absolute total awareness.
In existence you are matter, in absolute you are pure Spirit. — Gian Kumar

The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed. — Gian Carlo Menotti

People are increasingly using the Internet for easy price comparisons. Also, the reliability of delivery of a product bought over the Internet has increased. — Gian Fulgoni

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. — Gian Carlo Menotti

The real identity is projected only through our deeds, what we leave behind, unchanging and merging with our ultimate reality. — Gian Kumar

There is an abundance of data available in the digital world and if it's harnessed effectively and correctly it can provide terrific insights. — Gian Fulgoni

A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music. — Gian Carlo Menotti

We come from nothing, we go back into nothing.
That nothing is something, that something is everything.
That everything is the cosmos.
Is this a grand joke telling us? What we really are; just nothing. — Gian Kumar

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera. — Gian Carlo Menotti

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks. — Gian-Carlo Rota

We all have multidimensional identities while we exist- physical, mental to spiritual. — Gian Kumar

I rebelled against the idea of the artist being what I call the 'after-dinner mint' of society. I didn't want them to be just the entertainers, but rather part of the community - the bread, not only the dessert. — Gian Carlo Menotti

In witnessing yourself lies the whole mystery of life. — Gian Kumar

Mind is designed mainly to seek within its own parameters of knowing in self-interest. — Gian Kumar

Do not surrender to any master; that would be slavery.
Surrender to yourself, for that would be victory. — Gian Kumar

Going beyond thoughts is merely to reduce the multiplicity of your thought.
Thoughts lead to words, words to language, language to action.
Action to realization, and back again to thoughts.
For the mind is made up of words, language and logic, until it dissolves into consciousness. — Gian Kumar

The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed. — Gian Carlo Menotti

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. — Gian Carlo Menotti

God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota

The idea of #God is just a path and a process;
To realize that you and Him are one. — Gian Kumar

This is your work now, Gian had thought, strewing death about him, but only live and some day, home again, turn your hand to something better, and in Sea-john life will be good, and safe, and full of love. — Kai Ashante Wilson

The purpose of my writing, whatever I write, is not what may be right or wrong;
But for when I leave this body, my writings should remain that others may share. — Gian Kumar

The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which. — Gian-Carlo Rota

The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done. — Gian Carlo Menotti

To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money. — Gian Giacomo Trivulzio

The purpose of both, awareness and consciousness, is to lead us towards this path of Oneness. — Gian Kumar

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere. — Gian-Carlo Rota

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences? — Gian-Carlo Rota

Truth lies in the now; it can only be experienced. — Gian Kumar

The ultimate reality is that God is One. We all live existentially in that oneness of all. — Gian Kumar

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. — Frank Gehry

Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature. Give us a billion dollars.' And if it doesn't change the world, then they say, 'There's an even deeper thing. Give us another billion dollars.' — Gian-Carlo Rota

I am That is the supreme knowledge;
The understanding and experience of which dissolves everything,
Leading you towards completion. — Gian Kumar

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am. — Gian Carlo Menotti

I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music. — Gian Carlo Menotti

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Lord! Give me that intelligence, so I may realize the Self.
Give me spiritual riches, so I may learn better to share.
Give me that knowledge, where pupils come from everywhere,
So I may serve better. — Gian Kumar

Money serves those who can match it the right way.
So it is for us to decide and understand the meaning of Live Rich or Die Rich — Gian Kumar

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people. — Gian Carlo Menotti

Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience. — Gian Kumar

The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events. — Gian-Carlo Rota

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius! — Gian-Carlo Rota

Awakening of intelligence into awareness,
Contemplation and realization is the sole purpose of #life. — Gian Kumar

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding. — Gian-Carlo Rota

When we contemplate, we realize that one moment is not separate from the other;
What we need is to live from one moment to the next, as this is reality of the eternal now. — Gian Kumar

One should act not with worry but with faith;
One should act willingly and selflessly,
Let life be, the way it is. — Gian Kumar

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. — Gian Carlo Menotti

In order to love others, we have to love ourselves deeply enough, to be able to forgive ourselves and become responsible, with self respect and dignity. This self love is Divine Love, for oneself and for all. — Gian Kumar

Spiritual is criterion, where free will exists in plenty. — Gian Kumar

One lived in the impression that nobody could ever compete with the 'Nutcracker' or 'A Christmas Carol.' — Gian Carlo Menotti

Like and dislike, good or bad, God and devil, this and that,
Creates dualities and confuses mind to discriminate and make choices.
In Oneness, they all merge into surrender and acceptance. — Gian Kumar

Living in oneness is in itself the highest form of
self-realization, beyond any enlightenment or higher
Consciousness. — Gian Kumar

Acceptability is that secret, which brings in surrender,
Which brings in totality, which brings in love,
From where arises our Oneness. — Gian Kumar

Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence. — Gian Kumar

I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin or Beethoven, though Beethoven had a very difficult time writing melody, too. — Gian Carlo Menotti

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory. — Gian-Carlo Rota

For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness. — Gian Carlo Menotti

It's always what you did before. The year before is always so much better. Even when the critics hated what you did then, it always looks better five years later. — Gian Carlo Menotti