simplyknowledge | Quotations

Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.

-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"

In today's time, no other ''charity'' is acceptable or practical than the ''wisdom'' that can transform the human life... Meaning the knowledge which can teach a man to climb the ladder of success.

-Deep Trivedi

This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.

-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 13.11"

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book?

-Swami Vivekananda "Swami Vivekananda"

The ornament of the night is the moon, that of the day is the sun. The ornament of the devotee is devotion, that of devotion knowledge. The ornament of knowledge is meditation, and that of meditation is renunciation. The ornament of renunciation, says Tulsi, is pure, unalloyed peace.

-A Spiritual Leader "Sant Tulsidas"

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

-Vikram Seth "Vikram Seth"

The third eye is associated with alertness and awareness. When you are alert, awake, more into knowledge, then naturally the energy has moved from the lowest chakra to the highest. You know when you are very alert and awake the sexual energy has transformed itself into a different quality of consciousness.

-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar " Sri Sri Ravi Shankar"

Scholars who incessantly contemplate on acquiring strength and knowledge should also consider it their moral duty to impart knowledge to the ignorant, so that they can develop their mental faculties. This would automatically lead to the latter’s self-development and spiritual progress.

-Vedas "Yajur Veda"

The sun, symbolising wisdom, divine knowledge and spiritual light, which receded from you when you revelled in the darkness of ignorance, delusion and sensuality, now joyously turns on its northward course and moves towards you to shed its light and warmth in greater abundance, and to infuse into you more life and energy.

-Swami Sivananda "Swami Sivananda"

Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.

-A Spiritual Leader "Maharshi Mahesh Yogi"