QUOTES OF ALBERT EINSTEIN

1. I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
2. Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
3. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
4. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
5. Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
6. The scientists' religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
7. There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
8. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
9. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science.
10. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
11. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
12. When the solution is simple, God is answering.
13. God does not play dice with the universe.
14. God is subtle but he is not malicious.
15. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
16. Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
17. The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
18. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
19. Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
20. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
21. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
22. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
23. The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
24. The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
25. True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
26. Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

WHY GOD ALLOWS PAIN

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and
suffering that I have seen...


A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
"I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go
out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?

If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he
didn't want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with
long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the
barber shop again and he said to the barber:
"You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber.
"I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because
if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and
untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me."
"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him
for help.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

If you think God exists, send this to other people---
If you think God does not exist, delete it!

BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS !!!!!!!

quotes

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Three sentences for getting success:

· Know more than other

· Work more than other

· Expect less than other

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

If you win you need not explain … But if you lose you should not be there to explain.

ADOLPH HITLER

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world .if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

ALEN STRIKE

If we cannot love the person whom we see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?

MOTHER THERESA

No man is rich enough to buy his past.

OSCAR WILDE

If you want real peace don’t talk to your friends, talk with your enemies

MOTHER THERESA

Winning doesn’t always mean being first, winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before.

BONNIE BLAIR

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

LEO TOLSTOY

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure.

THOMAS EDISON

Believing everybody is dangerous; believing nobody is very dangerous.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Love your job but never fall in love with your company because you never knew when it stops loving you.

ABDUL KALAM

If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they had never tried a new thing in their life.

EINSTEIN

Never break four things in your life:

· Trust,

· Promise,

· Relation,

· Heart

Because when they break they do not make noise but pains a lot…

CHARLES

If you start judging people you will be having no time to love them.

MOTHER THERESA

Sayings of Swami Vivekananda

• For my own part I will be incarnated two hundred times, if that is necessary to do what I have undertaken amongst my people.
• All my patriotism is gone. Everything is gone. Now it's only Mother, Mother!
• My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.
• Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
• Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God.
• The secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice. To be good and do good - that is the whole of religion.
  Man is higher than all animals, than all angels; none is greater than man.
• One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom.
• Look at the wall. Did the wall ever tell a lie? It is always the wall. Man tells a lie and becomes a god, too. After so much austerity, I have understood this as the real truth - God is present in every jiva; there is no other God besides that. 'Who serves jiva, serves God indeed.'
• Cut out the word help from your mind. You cannot help; it is blasphemy! You worship. When you give a morsel of food to a dog, you worship the dog as God. He is all, and is in all.
• Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.
  All nations have attained greatness by paying proper respect to women. That country and that nation which do not respect women have never become great, nor will ever be in future.
• With five hundred men, ... the conquest of India might take fifty years: with as many women, not more than a few weeks.
  Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes, India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children.
• Before flooding India with socialistic or political ideas, first deluge the land with spiritual ideas.
• We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran.
• Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best.
• Who will give the world light? Sacrifice in the past has been the Law, it will be, alas, for ages to come. The earth's bravest and best will have to sacrifice themselves for the good of many, for the welfare of all.
• Truth, purity, and unselfishness - whenever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.
• Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
• The highest ideal is eternal and entire self-abnegation, where there is no 'I', but is Thou'.
• By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them.
• All expansion is life, all contraction is death.
• All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.
• The national ideals of India are Renunciation and Service. Intensity her in those channels, and the rest will take care of itself.
• Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.
• Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
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Swami Vivekananda on Women

"The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection."

"The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women."

" There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved."

"Woman has suffered for aeons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite preserverance."

"The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence."

buddha words of wisdom

he teachings of Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC) have been passed down from century to century. Buddha was an Indian leader, who taught those who chose to listen.

The wisdom of his teachings are reflected in the quotes below. Many of his words still hold true today!

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become
Buddha

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.
Buddha

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
Buddha

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
Buddha

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
Buddha

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?
Buddha

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles,
but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha