bondage

One who aspires for Self-Realization should drop the desire for sensual gratification. It is by craving sensual gratification that the Jiva is in a way, "hanged." Meditate only on God who is in your heart.

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To have no liking for anything other than the Self is the sign of Self-attainment. Meditation on anything other than the Self, is bondage. Always meditate on the "Divine Nature" of your Self. All other things are unreal. Any other concentration except on the Self, who is the Lord, is bondage.

- Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj.

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daily life

Questioner: How can I go through my devotional practices when I have always to think of my daily bread?

Sri Ramakrishna: He for whom you work will supply you with your necessaries. God made provisions for your support before He sent you into this world.

love

When you say to a woman or a man,

 ’I love you’ , you are simply saying,

’I cannot be deceived 

by your body, I have seen you. 

Your body may become old but 

I have seen you, the bodiless you. 

I have seen your innermost core, 

the core that is divine.’ 

Liking is superficial.

Love penetrates and goes to the very core 

of the person, touches the very soul 

of the person. 

No love is ordinary. 

Love cannot be ordinary, 

otherwise it is not love. 

To call love ordinary is to misunderstand 

the whole phenomenon of love.

Love is never ordinary; 

love is always extraordinary, 

always spiritual. 

❤ Osho

The Revolution

alone

God

❓ Do you seek God? Then seek Him in man. His divinity is manifest more in man, than in any other object. Look around for a man, whose heart overflows with the love of God; a man, who lives, moves and has his being in God - a man intoxicated with His love. In such a man God manifests Himself.

Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna 

("Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna”, Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Madras, Book III, Ch. XV, “Difficulty of Recognising Divine Incarnations”, 717)

agitation

Agitation of mind is the cause of desire, the sense of doership and personality. If that is stopped there is quiet.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

power

No thought has any power.

You have power.

And when you identify and 

believe in the thought,

You give power to the thought.

~Mooji