“No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe that you yourself are.”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“We are not strangers in this journey of life…We are connected to each other through this mysterious field of love.”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge…”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“Love is the sap of the tree of Life.”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“Flow is the nature of energy; flow is another name of life.”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“Bliss is inherent in the Self as fragrance is inherent in a flower. As the flower of the Self-love blossoms, bliss comes spontaneously as the fragrance.”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“Love is the divine light that melts away all blockages. Love heals our beings”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“Meditation is cultivating the potential to transcend your limited self, limited beliefs and limited existence. It is stepping into the exciting territory of limitlessness.”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“Awareness is Brahman. The absolute cosmic consciousness. When you are aware, you are connected with Brahman.”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“Life is a song made of the musical rhythm of the body, words of the mind and the melodious silence of the soul.”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“Pure Love is detached, self-assured, self-poised, non-possessive and non-aggressive in nature. Yet, it is tremendously powerful to move the whole universe.”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“Knowledge is borrowed. Imagination is original. It is the power of imagination that makes us different from our animal ancestors.”
― Banani Ray, quote from Awakening Inner Guru
“i stand
on the sacrifices
of a million women before me
thinking
what can i do
to make this mountain taller
so the women after me
can see farther
- legacy”
― Rupi Kaur, quote from The Sun and Her Flowers
“You’ll be surprised to see what can collect in a mattress over the months, over the years. Every day, every night of our lives, we’re leaving little bits of ourselves, flakes of this and that, behind. Where do they go, these bits and pieces of ourselves? Right through the sheets and into the mattress, that’s where! Pillows, too. It’s all the same. He”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
“In the gaunt, brown face in the mirror—unseen since late September—the blue eyes in a monkish skull seem eerily clear, but this is the face of a man I do not know.”
― Peter Matthiessen, quote from The Snow Leopard
“Salim,' She said, as if he were in the room. 'I'll have your guts for garters.' I has never heard this before and wondered what garters were. Kat told me later that they are what women used to wear around their thighs to keep their stockings up and they were elasticated. I do not think guts would be a tidy way of doing this.”
― Siobhan Dowd, quote from The London Eye Mystery
“Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I’d learn. Nothing was going to stop me.”
― E.R. Braithwaite, quote from To Sir, With Love
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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