Jeremy Riden > Jeremy's Quotes

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
― Albert Camus

“When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!”
― Adam S. McHugh

“I've been accused my whole life of being "too sensitive". This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that's just because I'm too sensitive.”
― Sophia Dembling

“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.”
― Anonymous, BHAGAVAD GITA: EL CANTO DEL SEÑOR

“The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when you and I and all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“Everyone makes their own path, and I must make mine. The Bhagavad Gita - and ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life perfectly. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. It is mine.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I enter into each planet, and by My energy they stay in orbit. I become the moon and thereby supply the juice of life to all vegetables.”
― Krishna, Bhagavad Gita

“Krishna says in the Gita, “The worst crime in the world is indecision.”
― Sadhguru, Mystic's Musings

“Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.”
― Bhagavad Gita

“Performing the duty prescribed by (one's own) nature, one incurreth no sin.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.”
― Bhagwad Geeta

“Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita

“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become”
― Bhagavad Gita

“The cause of the distress of a living entity is forgetfulness of his relationship with God.”
― Anonymous, Bhagavad-gita As It Is

“For even if the greatest sinner worships me with all his soul, he must be considered righteous, because of his righteous will. And he shall soon become pure and reach everlasting peace. For this is my word of promise, that he who loves me shall not perish. -Krishna; Chapter 9, verses 30–31.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“There was never a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be.”
― Anonymous, Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. We are made of our thoughts; we are molded by our thoughts.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“The thought of the Gita is not pure Monism although it sees in one unchanging, pure, eternal Self the foundation of all cosmic existence, nor Mayavada although it speaks of the Maya of the three modes of Prakriti omnipresent in the created world; nor is it qualified Monism although it places in the One his eternal supreme Prakriti manifested in the form of the Jiva and lays most stress on dwelling in God rather than dissolution as the supreme state of spiritual consciousness; nor is it Sankhya although it explains the created world by the double principle of Purusha and Prakriti; nor is it Vaishnava Theism although it presents to us Krishna, who is the Avatara of Vishnu according to the Puranas, as the supreme Deity and allows no essential difference nor any actual superiority of the status of the indefinable relationless Brahman over that of this Lord of beings who is the Master of the universe and the Friend of all creatures. Like the earlier spiritual synthesis of the Upanishads this later synthesis at once spiritual and intellectual avoids naturally every such rigid determination as would injure its universal comprehensiveness. Its aim is precisely the opposite to that of the polemist commentators who found this Scripture established as one of the three highest Vedantic authorities and attempted to turn it into a weapon of offence and defence against other schools and systems. The Gita is not a weapon for dialectical warfare; it is a gate opening on the whole world of spiritual truth and experience and the view it gives us embraces all the provinces of that supreme region. It maps out, but it does not cut up or build walls or hedges to confine our vision.”
― Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita

“The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, My Gita

“It was Vyasa’s genius to take the whole great Mahabharata epic and see it as metaphor for the perennial war between the forces of light and the forces of darkness in every human heart.”
― Ved Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.”
― Bhagavad Gita

“Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna is manifested by physical representations.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is

“We are not rational creatures who feel; we are emotional creatures who rationalize.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, My Gita

“Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita