Asian Philosophy Quotes

Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we're in. ~ Darrell Calkins

How much does he lack himself who must have many things? ~ Sen No Rikyu

According to ancient Asian philosophy, life is not a circle but a spiral. Every life lesson that has ever been presented to you (which means everything you have ever been through) will come back again, in some form, until you learn it. And the stakes each time will be higher. Whatever you've learned will bear greater fruit. Whatever you've failed to learn will bear harsher consequences. Whatever didn't work in your life before this point was a reflection of the fact that you hadn't yet integrated the different parts of yourself. Where you didn't yet accept yourself, you attracted a lack of acceptance in others. Where you hadn't yet dealt with your shadows, you manifested shadowy situations. Broken parts of you encountered broken parts of others. So now you know! That was then and this is now. ~ Marianne Williamson

They entered there into the unconscious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured 'like the bridge on the Drina'. ~ Ivo Andric

Since divine truth and scripture clearly teach us that God, the Creator of all things, is Wisdom, a true philosopher will be a lover of God. That does not mean that all who answer to the name are really in love with genuine wisdom, for it is one thing to be and another to be called a philosopher. ~ Augustine Of Hippo

The doctrine that God can be incarnated in human form is found in most of the principal historic expositions of the Perennial Philosophy - in Hinduism, in Mahayana Buddhism, in Christianity and in the Mohammedanism of the Sufis, by whom the Prophet was equated with the eternal Logos. When goodness grows weak, When evil increases, I make myself a body. In every age I come back To deliver the holy, To destroy the sin of the sinner, To establish righteousness. He who knows the nature Of my task and my holy birth Is not reborn When he leaves this body; He comes to Me. Flying from fear, From lust and anger, He hides in Me, His refuge and safety. Burnt clean in the blaze of my being, In Me many find home. Bhagavad Gita ~ Aldous Huxley

Life is adventurous and exciting because you never know where you will be in a few minutes or so. ~ Debasish Mridha

I am yours but you are free of mine.
My love is yours but I don't want any return ~ Debasish Mridha

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. ~ Augustus William Hare

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything ~ Stewart Stafford

To make this world a loving place, be loving and kind. ~ Debasish Mridha

To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary. ~ Merold Westphal

I follow three rules: find the opportunity to love and love endlessly, be kind to all and rude to none, and serve others with care and know that service is joy. ~ Debasish Mridha

Don't let anything disturb your inner peace and tranquilly. ~ Debasish Mridha

You belong to everything and
everything belongs to you.
You are in the beauty of a flower.
You are also in the nourishing spring shower.
Then why do you fear to change?
You just lose your name
and your inner beauty remains the same. ~ Debasish Mridha

To be a success, first dream, then visualize and then act. ~ Debasish Mridha

Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them? ~ Eraldo Banovac

Accept the challenge and never fear to change. ~ Debasish Mridha

When we hear the sound of the pine trees on a windy day, perhaps the wind is just blowing, and the pine tree is just standing in the wind. That is all they are doing. But the people who listen to the wind in the tree will write a poem, or will feel something unusual. That is, I think, the way everything is. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

Achieving a goal is important, but what is more important is the distance that you have to travel with its ups and downs, fears and failures. ~ Debasish Mridha

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done. ~ Melissa Marr

I am safe and secured in the Lord. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places. ~ Jim Rohn

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism. ~ Marshall McLuhan

An everyday moment could be deeply etched into our hearts and minds. A sudden moment could become unforgettable. Another moment could be tattooed to our souls. ~ Avijeet Das

Treat life as if it is the best gift from the universe. ~ Debasish Mridha

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure. ~ G.E. Moore

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil. ~ Octave Mirbeau

Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise. ~ Debasish Mridha

The shadowy edge between normal and paranormal is more than ILLUSORY... ~ Sahara Sanders

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy. ~ Jonny Greenwood

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. ~ F.K. Preston

Wherever you go, warm that place and people with love and kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

The best way to be happy is to be kind to someone. ~ Debasish Mridha

Carpe Rectum. Seize the hot ass the good Lord has provided. ~ Valerie Z. Lewis

In this sort of predicament, always ask yourself: How did we learn the meaning of this word ("good", for instance)? From what sort of examples? In what language-games? Then it will be easier for you to see that the word must have a family of meanings. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is - without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom - of just being - living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn