„Finally, the benefits of knowing thyself are —You won’t be clouded by the love of life, flatterers can’t arouse your mind, good/bad will appear to be the same before your eyes, pleasure and pain will lose their meanings, the sense of sins and death will vanish away and you will end up having the sense of immortality.“

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— Dan Millman, book Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior

„There is an inborn tendency to be Free. Every being is struggling to be Free. No one wants bondage. No one wants misery. The very idea of disease and death is appalling to all. Still, a being thinks that it will be happy by sense-pleasures. Can these sense-pleasures make one happy? No. Any amount of sense-pleasures will not make one really happy. Sense-pleasures will bring momentary satisfaction and then make one unhappy. Then comes the question: Where does this real happiness lie? It lies in knowing the True Nature. To know your True Nature, you have to control your mind. In order to control your mind, you have to live a true life. You must be a man of good character. That is why all the Scriptures ask their followers to be good, kind, gentle, noble, charitable, truthful, etc. In fact, moral and ethical codes of good conduct are the starting points of all Religions. They start with moral and ethical codes and end with God-realization or Self-realization.“

— Swami Narayanananda Indian guru 1902 - 1988

The Essence of Life (1980), also in Minor Works II (2001), p. 131f

Life, Death, God, Pleasure

„Men are like wine. You taste them, they seem good, they arouse your senses... But after? You suddenly find yourself with your head spinning. And if you are not careful, if you don’t chose only those high quality ones, you will end up feeling also nauseated.“

— Menotti Lerro Italian poet 1980

Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
Theater Quotes

Wine, Sense, Feeling, Men

„Spending all your money before you have a business model, makes about as much sense as drinking all your water before you hike across a desert so that you won’t have to carry the canteen.“

— Jay Samit American businessman 1961

Future Proofing You (2021)

Money, Drink, Business, Water

„Know yourself: a cloud
drifting before your sun.
Cut yourself off from your senses
and behold your sun of intimacy.“

— Fakhruddin 'Iraqi Persian philosopher 1213 - 1289

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

Sense, Sun

„You can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Life, Death, Light, Learning

„Love is like cigarettes. It gives you a little pleasure while you're at it, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and a pain in your chest.“

— Loraine Despres Novelist/screen writer 1938

Source: The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By

Love, Pain, Pleasure

„Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?… Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?“

— Anne Rice, book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

Love, Death

„Gaining the sense of immortality or eternal life will make you appear like a god, prophet or saint before those who lack self-knowledge.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

God, Knowledge, Appearance, Sense

„My experience is that everything is bliss. But the desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what is pain. (…) for the sake of pleasure you are committing many sins. And the fruits of sin are suffering and death.“

— Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian guru 1897 - 1981

Desire and fear
Source: "I am That." P.82.

Death, Pain, Pleasure, Suffering

„Walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. It’s your life. Do what makes you happy.“

— Ralph Smart

Sense, Bad luck, Life, Making love

„If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.“

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic 1729 - 1781

Sense

„The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.“

— Terry Pratchett, book Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

„You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.“

— Vladimir Nabokov Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899 - 1977

Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

Memory

„Mind the time when you would be lying before your family members, and there would be no physician to stop it (death), and no friend to benefit you.“

— Ali al-Hadi imam 829 - 868

Muhsin al-Amīn, ‘Ayān ush-Shī‘ah, vol.2, p. 39.
Religious Wisdom

Death, Family, Lying, Time

„Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.“

— Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

Source: Walk Two Moons

Love, Heart

„The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.“

— Anthony Robbins Author, actor, professional speaker 1960

Life, Pain, Pleasure, Secret

„If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.“

— Frank Herbert, book Dune

Source: Dune

Sense

„Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.“

— Laurell K. Hamilton Novelist 1963

Love, Sense

„If you could once get away, my friends, from that sense of mediocrity and nothingness to which you are shut up, under the stupor of your self-seeking and your sin, how easy would it be for you to believe! Nay, if but some faintest suspicion could steal into you of what your soul is, and the tremendous evils working in it, nothing but the mystery of Christ's death and passion would be sufficient for you.“

— Horace Bushnell American theologian 1802 - 1876

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 235.

Death, Soul, Sense, Passion

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