Quotations - Words of Wisdom

India's Pearls
These are just some of the most thought provoking sentiments I've so far discovered from this ancient part of our world. Most people in the West will have of Ghandi, but what of other wisemen from India? How many of us know India's pearls of wisdom beyond Ghandi?  I cannot claim that I do so I did a bit of reading and came up with these... 

"One drop of the sea cannot claim to come from one river, and another drop of the sea from another river; the sea is a single consistent whole. In the same way all beings are one; there is no being that does not come from the soul, and is not part of the soul." Chandogya Upanishad

"Freedom is a state of mind - not freedom from something." Krishnamurti

"Propaganda can never tell the truth; truth can never be propagated." Krishnamurti

"Our consciousness is not actually yours or mine; it is the consciousness of man, evolved, grown, accumulated through many, many centuries... When one realizes this our responsibility becomes extraordinarily important." Krishnamurti


"What is the soul? The soul is consciousness. It shines a the light within the heart." Bridadaranyaka Upandishad


"Our responsbility is no longer to acquire, but to be." Kabindranath Tagore

"As an individual, a specific entity, you have physical, mental and nervous limits, among others. If you know your own limits and try to stay within these limits, you are free." Svani Prajnanpad

"What causes fear? Lack of confidence in oneself." Svani Prajnanpad

"The key to an easy relationship with other people is not to impose your ego, nor to crush the ego of others." Svani Prajnanpad

"To love is to understand and feel that the other person is different." Svani Prajnanpad


"Like a silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself. Who will save you? Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul." Swami Vivekananda

"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience." Mahatma Ghandi

"Nonviolence os the summit of bravery." Mahatma Ghandi

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Mahatma Ghandi

"If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others too." Mahatma Ghandi

Or to put it another way... It matters not by what way or by what means we travel, only that we travel and in travelling we learn and grow. My words, but I'm sure it's a paraphrase of someone else. If anyone knows who, I'd be grateful to learn the original.