Nature quotes
Desire's ultimate goal is unboundedness, the infinite nature, but because you are unaware you are giving it an unconscious expression for the longing that is wanting to become unbounded, you can't destroy your desire, you have to make your desire into a conscious process
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
Forget about others. You learn to be loving by your own nature, not because of somebody else or something else.
You may attach much significance to your birth, life, and death, but for Mother Earth, it is just a recycling process
Once your sexuality gets into your head, that's called perversion. If it's in the body, it's a natural process
There is no one who can remain without action even for a moment. Indeed, all beings are compelled to act by their qualities(Gunas) born of material nature(Prakriti)
The nature of habit can be understood by this analogy: Clay can be molded into a vase, and while the clay is still soft it is easy to change the form of that vase again and again. But once it is fired in an oven, its shape becomes firmly set
Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers, it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
The sunlight clasp the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine..."
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more
Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Science should have been just a quest to know, not to exploit the creation. It is human longing to know.
War is the most extreme situation that human beings can create by themselves, for other (extreme) things you need nature's help
A Tiger is not making an attempt to be a good tiger, if he just eats well, he is a good tiger,everything else is fixed within him by nature, when you are born as a human being whether you grow up into a good human being or terrible one is left to you
For all the other beings, everything in their life is set, Once you are born as a human, your life is in your hands, Nature has left that responsibility to us
Wonder does not necessarily come from innocence. modern science has done phenomenal amount of exploration... as you explore, as you know, the wonder will increase because you realize the nature of the existence, then wonder will just explode.
Forces of Nature: The choice is either to swim against the current or with it. It is sensible to go with it. It is not that you cannot swim against it. You can, but unnecessary effort
Why we are continuously talking about joy, blissfulness, love, is not because it's a goal by itself, these are not goals by itself -only when you are pleasant by your own nature, you stop being in pursuit of happiness. You are fine by yourself, you don't have to go anywhere to feel pleasant. You don't have to do anything to feel pleasant
To make a simple physical act beautiful, we have invented all kinds of decorations around it. Without those decorations most people would be unwilling to get into the physical act. Lot of people cannot simply face the basic physical act as it is, unless it is decorated they will feel it is obscene, they'll feel it is basic - which is a fact
Once you're not able to think beyond your biological identity, the very nature of being human, the immensity of being a human is constrained and constipated into a very small process.
In nature, everything is living and giving itself to the maximum extent. Only human beings are trying to save - their joy, their love, their everything
Nature has evolved us to a higher level of intelligence and awareness, but we are refusing to accept the promotion
The nature of a human being is such that only when his survival process is taken care of, his life begins.
If we are in tune with the fundamental laws of nature, we will enjoy the process of life. Otherwise, suffering is inevitable
Nature did not make a mistake with you; it created a tremendous product. But still, you are yet to realize its potential
The beauty of the creation is that the ugly and the beautiful are always together. What is filthy and what is sacred is always together.
Sex is a simple physical process, we are trying to make it into so many things which it is not. It is just nature's trick to reproduce; because if this attraction was not there, you wouldn't reproduce.
If all the seven billion people on the planet find access to the comforts and conveniences that an average American citizen has, we would need four and a half planets to sustain us. But we have only one. We are surviving only because there is a disproportionate situation.
The problem (of overpopulation) is not small, but some people in a resigned way say, "Nature will correct it." Yes, for sure it will correct it. The correction will be reducing the human population. But whenever human populations are reduced, you don't see it as a solution; you see it as a disaster.
For one who is fearful, darkness is evil. For one who is not fearful, darkness is the all-absorbing nature of existence. That which can absorb everything is also that which creates everything.
All activities are carried out by the three modes of material nature. But in ignorance, the soul, deluded by false identification with the body, thinks itself to be the doer.
Even wise people act according to their natures, for all living beings are propelled by their natural tendencies. What will one gain by repression?
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.
She turned to the sunlight, and shook her yellow head, and whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead."
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
We may think that there are many challenges before the ecology, but actually there is only one - human population. We are nice but we are too many! It's time we control human population, else nature will do it in a very cruel way
Spiritual process means your life is not driven by your physical nature. Life's intrinsic intelligence needs to find expression
Nothing should be 'use and throw.' This is not just about saving resources. This is about a certain respect for all creation.
Exploring the nature of oneself is spiritual process. Exploring the nature of the creation is Mysticism
There are no disasters in nature, we are the only disaster on this planet, if we fix that one thing, everything is going to be okay
What is possible and what is not is not your business. Nature will decide this. Your business is just to work for what truly matters to you
Wherever you may be, whatever you may be, if you are willing to strive, you can evolve yourself beyond the limitations of nature
Unleash your desire; limit it not to the limited. In the boundlessness of the desire is your ultimate nature
I would call everything natural. It is just that nature may not reveal itself completely to everyone. Depends on how much application, and focus, intensity of perception you have, accordingly it reveals itself to you.
Understanding and intuition are interrelated. Intuition does not go against Nature's laws of understanding, but it goes beyond them
Behold the leaves trembling on the trees, and try to feel their movement. Imagine in that movement that God is expressing His thoughts and inspirations
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.