Krishnananda Quotes & Sayings

I guess I'll see you third period, Mr. Cooper," she says as she exits the room.
The way she refers to me as "Mr. Cooper" makes me scowl. I hate the fact that I'm her teacher. I'd so much rather be her Will. — Colleen Hoover

What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone. — Krishnananda Saraswati

Being a superhero is a lot of fun. — Chris Hemsworth

Life too short to spend alone — Christian Simamora

The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion. — Krishnananda Saraswati

It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job. — John Podhoretz

Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity. — Krishnananda Saraswati

We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself. — Krishnananda Saraswati

We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands. — Krishnananda Saraswati

Strong and in control - I don't necessarily feel that way. I'm a little bit more scattered in my life. I'm more of a street girl, in a way. — Rene Russo

Life is mental; it's all about attitude. The majority of it is lived in your head. — Richelle E. Goodrich

[W]hat seems like madness at its inception will become the way things have always been if you give it enough time. — Mira Grant

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. — Studs Terkel

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are. — Krishnananda Saraswati

Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality. — Krishnananda Saraswati

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world. — Toni Collette

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country. — Sai Baba

Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves. — Krishnananda Saraswati

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it. — Clark Gable

I'll join with black despair against my soul, and to myself become an enemy. — Richard III

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The universe is something like a powerful radar system that is set up from all sides to record every action and every event that may take place anywhere, even of the least intensity or momentum. Meditation, when it is properly done, is not a silent and non-interfering process of thinking by some individual in some undisturbed corner, but a positive interference with the very structure of the universe and, sometimes, a directly employed system starts working at once and the forces around receive a warning, as it were, that someone is in a state of meditation. Immediately, counter-forces are gathered by what is generally known as the lower nature and the meditation receives a setback. — Swami Krishnananda

Arjuna asked Sri Krishna, "In this chaotic condition of my mind, what is my duty? I surrender myself to you, great Master. Please tell me."
The answer of Bhagavan Sri Krishna is, "You understand nothing. You draw conclusions without proper understanding of the structure of life and your relationship to people or things in general. It is a very sorry state. How can you draw conclusions without proper premises? If you draw a conclusion based on a wrong premise, the conclusion is also wrong. Therefore, all that you have been told up to this time is without any foundation because you do not know either yourself or the world. — Swami Krishnananda

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self. — Krishnananda Saraswati

"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage. — Krishnananda Saraswati

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady. — Krishnananda Saraswati

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time. — Colin Hay

Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises. — Krishnananda Saraswati

The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it. — Hasan Of Basra