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World's profound wisdom is hidden in simple thoughts.
You learn more by paying attention to them rather than listening to long discourse
or reading lengthy passages. Beyond a point all knowledge becomes pure noise. Here
are a few thoughts and inspirational quotations, some simple and straightforward and some tricky and difficult
to understand. The difficult ones are like the Zen koans, which do not
make sense apparently unless you think about them deeply. These are some disconnected
thoughts that flash in my mind from time to time. - Jayaram V
When it is dark do not light a candle. Close your eyes and sleep.
Darkness is eternal. Light is just a temporary phenomenon.
Do not speak to the silence. Listen to it.
When you choose not to walk on a straight path, do not
complain that you are seeing only
twists and turns.
With a thousand lies you cannot create even one truth.
When you want to climb a mountain be prepared to slip and fall.
If you live in the past, you will be history sooner than you
think.
Make the sky empty and fill it again.
It is better to keep some dreams as dreams.
Reality is a tough companion.
Learning is a discipline. You cannot learn without
concentration, commitment and humility.
If you hear people saying, "Here is a great leader, praise
him," don't believe them. They have been doing that since
the earliest times. The best of the human beings rarely received
their due credit. They died mostly unknown, just as they are
now.
There is no such thing as honesty unless you believe in it.
Do not take history too seriously. It is mostly a story of
convenience and wilful insominia.
We are born to die. We start dying from the day we are born. We spend a whole
lifetime trying not to remember this universal truth. We ignore it when we are young.
We try to deal with it as we become older and perhaps start worrying about it as
our bodies begin to fail us.
The more I read the newspapers, the less I believe in history
We learn from Hinduism this. Your religion does not have to have a name. God
does not have to be the center of it. What you believe in is important. If your
beliefs can set you free from all that holds you back here in chains, consider that
you are blessed and you have come a long way in the journey of your liberation.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to lie. Unfortunately some people think
so.
More knowledge sometimes is a waste of time.
Fools disagree because of ignorance. Intelligent people disagree because of their
excess knowledge. The wise one neither agrees nor disagrees. Hence he is called,
muni, the silent one.
If you cannot follow a few simple rules of self-discipline, why read a thousand
books?
If you cannot help speaking lies, try becoming an Ad writer.
Sage Valmiki became enlightened with just one word, "Rama" or "Mara". With all
the knowledge I have acquired, I am still ignorant.
If words can kill, people will kill each other everyday.
I know some people do not believe in innovation. They believe in renovation.
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