Upanishad Quotes

Nachiketa went to Yama (God of death) to know the mystery of death (Katho Upanishad), that means to know what was after death. They did not want to see this life. They did not know how wonderful this life was. Whatever you can do, do it within this present life.
They didn't want to know what was light, on the contrary searched for what was in the dark. ~ Sri Jibankrishna Or Diamond

He by whom the whole universe is constantly pervaded is the Knower, the Author of time. He is sinless and omniscient.

It is at His command that the work which is called earth, water, fire, air and akasa appears as the universe. All this should be reflected upon by the wise. ~ Svetasvatara Upanishad

May God protect us, grant us wisdom's fruit; may we gain energy to know the Truth; may our intellects grow clear and bright; may we cherish no ill feelings toward anyone. Om, peace, peace, peace be unto all. ~ Taittiriya Upanishad 2.1.1

Where there is the Infinite there is joy. There is no joy in the finite. - THE CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD ~ Charles Seife

In the religion these words 'save me' were created to suppress the truth of the human life. These words 'save me', indicates that you are sinner and so you are uttering these words. But see how wonderful the human life is! Yes, I am Universal. Upanishad is saying 'Amritasya Putrah' (Sons of Amrita or Immortal self). What a wonderful version! And in that case they are crying 'save me'! Upanishads created heaven by saying 'Sons of Immortal self' and on the contrary they have created hell by uttering the words 'Save me'. ~ Sri Jibankrishna Or Diamond

The attitude of the God-conscious man of the Upanishad towards the universe is one of a deep feeling of adoration. His object of worship is present everywhere. It is the one living truth that makes all realities true. This truth is not only of knowledge but of devotion. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The Kena Upanishad says that the Self "shines through the mind and senses," which is a poetic way of saying that it is the power of the Self which allows the mind and senses to function. So the eternally conscious Self is what makes us conscious. Essentially, it is light.
At times when our inner vision becomes pure enough to let us see through the layers of psychic debris that thickens our consciousness and make it opaque, we realize that everything is actually made of light. We understand that we are light, that the world is light, and that light is the essence of everything. This is why so many people's experience of touching the Self are experiences of light - visions, inner luminosity, or profound and crystalline clarity. ~ Sally Kempton

Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the god-within ... underlying its whirlpool of transient feelings, emotions, and delusions is the self-luminous, abiding point of the transpersonal god. As the sun lights the world even when cloud-covered, "the Immutable is never seen but is the Witness; it is never heard but is the Hearer; it is never thought but is the Thinker; it is never known but is the Knower. There is no other witness but This, no other knower but This." from the Upanishad ~ Huston Smith

There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found. ~ Bede Griffiths

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action ~ Maitreya Upanishad

That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which the eye is perceived - That alone know as Brahman and not that
which people here worship. ~ Kena Upanishad

Who sees all beings in his own self and his own self in all beings, loses all fear. ~ Isa Upanishad

There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart. ~ Chandogya Upanishad

Those wise ones who see that the consciousness within them is the same consciousness within all beings, attain peace. -THE KATHA UPANISHAD ~ Gabrielle Orr

Homeopathy did not merely seek to cure a disease but treated a disease as a sign of disorder of the whole human organism. This was also recognized in the Upanishad which spoke of human organs as combination of body mind and spirit. Homoeopathy would pay an important part in the Public Health of the country along with other systems. Medical facilities in India are so scanty that Homoeopathy can confidently visualize a vast field of expansion. ~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

So we are said to be what our desire is. As our desire is, so is our will. As our will is, so are our acts. As we act, so we become. ~ Sage Yajnavalkya Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Who sees the many and not the one, wanders on from death to death.
Even by the mind this truth is to be learned: there are not many but only one. Who sees variety and not the unity wanders on from death to death. ~ Upanishad

The wise man beholds all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings; for that reason he does not hate anyone. ~ Isa Upanishad

To believe that being is inexhaustibly intelligible is to believe also - whether one wishes to acknowledge it or not - that reality emanates from an inexhaustible intelligence: in the words of the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, pure consciousness, omnipresent, omniscient, the creator of time. ~ David Bentley Hart

When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind,the highest End ~ Maitreya Upanishad

From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of the inexistance to the existentialist, formless to the form, Creator to the Creature, one to the every being, absolute to the inabsolute and vis-á-vis, soforth every single thing is temporary, non-existed, so do I, the dream that I dreamed off is simply a 'lie and impermanent too' same as in the mortal world whatever I do experience. ~ Upanishad