Jivanmuktas Quotes & Sayings

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon the hidden life of the imagination and fantasy, which is hungry for stimulation. — Arthur Tress

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them. — Mother Teresa

Perhaps the best antidote and preventive for burnout is the feeling of solid connection with the people in our lives. When we can share our frustrations with family and friends, our burden is eased and we can get new perspectives. — Richard O'Connor

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves. — Kate Millett

People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness. — Nick Nolte

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go. — Lateefah Simon

Because of the grades in misery and happiness, the released ones, the jivanmuktas and videhamuktas, may be spoken of as belonging to four categories - Brahmavid, Brahmavara, Brahmavariya and Brahmavarishtha. But these distinctions are from the standpoint of the others who look at them; in reality, however, there are no distinctions in release gained through jnana. — Ramana Maharshi

We've been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled. — Yoko Ono

That meek darkness be thy mirror, and thy whole remembrance. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements.Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too! — Mikhail Bakunin

Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is. — Dave Ramsey

Funny how in really serious moments people always say the stupidest things. — Lauren Oliver

Roz added sheep to Heaven. They would be outside the window, naturally. — Margaret Atwood