Shuddha Upayog Quotes & Sayings

To constantly see one's own self as 'Pure', and to see other's self as 'pure', is focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayog). — Dada Bhagwan

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out. — Robin Williams

Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release. — John Vane

Music keeps the soul alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial. — J. C. Chandor

They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful. — Holly Smale

Keeping 'pure focused applied awareness of the Self (Soul)' (shuddha upayog) is the same as being in the Absolute Supreme Self-form (Parmatma swaroop). — Dada Bhagwan

There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable. — Malcolm Gladwell

I am Chandubhai' is good or bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upyoga). 'I am Pure Soul', is the focused pure applied awareness of the Self (shuddha upayog). With good-bad focused applied awareness (shubha-ashubha upayog) instillation in the worldly life occured. — Dada Bhagwan

I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply.
"You truly want me?"
"More than anything. I'm only half without you."
"Then you are my woman." His words were finality, a bond he would not permit broken. She had given herself to his keeping. He would never let her go.
"And you'll never leave me?" she pressed.
"I'll stay with you for all of ever, lass."
Jane's eyes flared, and she looked at him strangely. "And then yet another day?" she asked breathlessly.
"Oh, aye. — Karen Marie Moning

Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge)
Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to find our place.
Yes, we are going to die, / let's not beat about the bush. / Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, / maybe even years from now.
Meanwhile, / we have someone who loves us, / someone to love. / Surely there is no need to hesitate. — Jay Woodman

Fermented foods contain natural probiotics, or healthy bacteria, that can take your health to the next level. Nearly every culture has a version of a fermented food: yogurt, kefir, miso, and fermented vegetables, including sauerkraut, pickles, and kimchi. — Sara Gottfried

The person who wants to progress on the path of Vitrag (the enlightened ones), should keep the focus of the awareness to progress from the non-auspicious (bad) to the auspicious (good). And if one wants to go to final Liberation [moksha], he should keep 'pure focus as the Self (Soul)' (shuddha upayog). The person, who wants to go to Moksha, should not concern himself with the auspicious (good) or the inauspicious (bad). He should keep them both as the things to be cleared out. — Dada Bhagwan

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal. — Shirley Hazzard

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Shuddha upayog (applied awareness of the Self, The Soul) means to be able to see the Soul and the Body of the other person as separate. The constant contemplation of 'I am pure Soul (Shuddhatma)' is shukladhyan (pure contemplation as the Self). — Dada Bhagwan

Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan). — Dada Bhagwan

But it is really just a psychic overcompensation for our impotence as beings. — Thomas Ligotti

Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present 'at a time' exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul). — Dada Bhagwan