Famous Quotes with Tracy Phaup

Speaking to an audience of understanding men
Is like watering a bed of growing plants.
Those who speak good things to good and learned gatherings
Should never say them to ignorant groups, even forgetfully.
Speaking before men of alien mind
Is like pouring sweet nectar down a drain.
Author Unknown Quotes

People weep for their spouses, their children, and their wealth, but who weeps for God?
Author Unknown Quotes

Only those who are pure and self-controlled can find the world of Brahman. That world is theirs alone. In that world, in all worlds, they live in perfect freedom.
Chandogya Upanishad Quotes

While a child is engrossed with its toys its mother attends to her household duties, but when the child throws the toys aside and screams for its mother, then the mother puts down her cooking pot and takes the child in her arms.
Ramakrishna

Lord Shiva is my refuge: he who grants
Freedom from the cycle of birth and death.
Lord Shiva is my refuge: he who gave
The sacred scriptures at the dawn of time.
Lord Shiva is my refuge: he who is
The source of purity and perfection.
Lord Shiva is my refuge: he who is
The bridge from death to immortality.
Lord Shiva is my refuge: he whose grace
Has made me long for his lotus feet.
Shvetashvatara Upanishad Quotes

Though you guard it well, what destiny does not decree disappears.  Though you cast it aside, what fate calls yours will not depart.
Tirukkural Quotes

When help is rendered by weighing the receiver's need
And not the donor's reward, its goodness grows greater than the sea.
Tirukkural Quotes

They have attained the goal who realize
Brahman as the supreme reality,
The source of truth, wisdom, and boundless joy.
They see the Lord in the cave of the heart
And are granted all the blessings of life.
Upanishads Quotes