Sannyasi Quotes & Sayings

Most people oversimplify Occam's razor to mean the simplest answer is usually correct. But the real meaning, what the Franciscan friar William of Ockham really wanted to emphasize, is that you shouldn't complicate, that you shouldn't "stack" a theory if a simpler explanation was at the ready. Pare it down. Prune the excess. — Harlan Coben

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The meaning of Sannyas is not well defined. Its meaning is not static; it is redefined after short periods of time in the life of a Sannyasi. — Harshit Walia

Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work, people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work. — Swami Vivekananda

The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left. — Starhawk

Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind. — John Hutchinson

In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most. — Harshit Walia

Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other
and land, of course. — Alexander McCall Smith

So many times in my life I've felt as though looking at Em is like seeing another variation of myself, but I don't feel that way now. Too much has changed recently. Still, Em is my best girl friend. Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
-Cassia, from the novel Matched. — Ally Condie

Humiliate your enemy is dangerous. — Karen Armstrong

My approach is different. My mistakes are conscious mistakes. And I learn more than those I despise way too often than those I admire. — Harshit Walia

If you walk east at daybreak from the town
To the cliff's foot, by climbing steadily
You cling at noon whence there is no way down
But to go toppling backward to the sea.
And not for birds nor birds' eggs, so they say,
But for a flower that in these fissures grows,
Forms have been seen to move throughout the day
Skyward; but what its name is no one knows.
'Tis said you find beside them on the sand
This flower, relinquished by the broken hand. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

then decided maybe something was wrong with Sundays. He tried Saturday and saw about two thousand — Nell Zink

When God says I LOVE YOU it moves you,when man says i love you it just soothes you for a while. — Marcelle Hinkson

Sannyas is not a philosophy; it is a quest for TRUTH. It is not a way of life. It is a commitment towards a self discovered state of mind. — Harshit Walia

If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful. — Rohit Shetty

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world. — Shalom Harlow

But after all, truth is something that cannot be given to you. You have to find it out for yourself. And to find it out for yourself, you must be a law to yourself, you must be a guide to yourself, not the political man that is going to save the world, not the communist, not the leader, not the priest, not the sannyasi, not the books; you have to live, you have to be a law to yourself. And therefore no authority - which means completely standing alone, not outwardly, but inwardly completely alone, which means no fear. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

They scrutinized the universe on the dial of the small radio through the interference of jeers from fugitive planets — Gabriel Garcia Marquez