“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
Banani Ray
Born place: in Kolkata, India
Born date December 25, 2018
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“One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”
― Aldous Huxley, quote from Island
“Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn’t develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It’s then and exactly then that you’re sensing the true nature of the universe, you’re linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you’re content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there’s the only place to be.”
― Tom Robbins, quote from Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
“any philosophy, no matter how perfect, works only for a finite period.”
― Amish Tripathi, quote from The Immortals of Meluha
“Do you think you have the right to give me orders now?"
The Archangel of New York, a creature so lethal that part of her feared him even now, lifted the hair off her nape, brushed his lips across her skin. "Of course. You are mine." No hint of humor, nothing but stark possession.
"I don't think you've quite got the hang of this true love thing.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Archangel's Kiss
“Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.”
― Thomas Pynchon, quote from V.
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