Don’t waste what is holy on people who are unholy. Don’t throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you. Matthew 7:6
This post is about the right way to use your power. Each one of us, by the virtue of being human, has a certain amount of power. Some of us more, others less. But we all do.
However not everyone knows how to use it.
First thing to realize is the spoken word is not as powerful as the concentrated thought that is never spoken aloud.
If you speak, and by doing that you lose some part of the focusing powers of your mind, then you lessen the power of your thought.
Because when you speak, you focus is on the outside, rather than on the inside.
In other words, when you speak, you interfere with the focusing powers of your mind. You have to withdraw your attention from the internal and place it on the external.
Don’t be quick to talk.
Don’t be quick to answer.
It always takes time before you can speak wisely. You have to be silent before you can utter words in a meaningful fashion.
To speak wisely rather than just mere words, you have to be able to secure at least some amount of concentration on the subject at hand.
So, don’t scatter your power by talking about it to other people. Know that the most potent force is the silent power.
Avoid Leaking Power
People use to brag and boast about the things they do well. Great people, in contrast, keep their beliefs to themselves. They don’t share them. They concentrate their inner power and use it on what they are trying to accomplish, on their work at hand. They don’t talk about it.
By doing that they avoid leaking power while not working.
Great people are not like a village wise persons who spill their wisdom everywhere and with every fool they encounter on the street. They use thier wisdom only if it can do some good work.
So, you too should keep your power for yourself, until the time has come to put it into action.
When that time comes, give the best you can, don’t spare yourself, don’t save your power for some future opportunity.
Believe me, there’s enough power in your for the future undertakings. Because the Divine supply in you is inexhaustible.
If you are a writer, let you best thoughts be reserved for your copy. If you are an entrepreneur, don’t share your best ideas before you realize them. In any case, don’t cast your pearls in front of the crowd that just wants to be entertained by you.
Mental Images are the Bases of Any Accomplishment
The creative process starts with a single mental image. So the first thing you would want to create is a mental image of what you want to accomplish.
Think of this image as a “mental seed”. It will attract similar thoughts to it. As long as you concentrate your inner power, as long as your desire provides fuel for this idea, your mental seed will continue to attract associated thoughts and images.
Nikola Tesla was famous for using this ability of the mind. He could work out his original mental images to perfection before realizing them on the material plane. Every thing, every undertaking, has to be created on the mental plane first.
Beware of Negative Images
All the time we act in accordance with the images we create for ourselves. Our subconscious doesn’t know for a joke.
If given negative images, it will act accordingly.
So beware not to mold wrong images, because they will lead to negative outcomes.
If you imagine disease, fear, scarcity, and limitation, your life will express them sooner or later.
Instead, think of abundance, joy, freedom, health, and power.
Exactly what you think is what you manifest in the physical world.
The human nature is filled with contradictions and oppositions. Know that naysayers are everywhere around you.
If you share your plans for success and abundance, chances are you will be sharing them with naysayers. Two out of three persons will negate your ideas without giving them a second thought. They might not do that openly. But they will do that silently.
You shouldn’t blame them either.
They do that because they truly believe it is impossible. They have been programmed to think so. They don’t believe they themselves or anyone they know can reach anything beyond mere existence, or even poverty.
So, again, keep your ideas private. Your plans are only for yourself. Talk about success once you have realized it. Talk about abundance once you get there.
The best times to share your plans is once you have achieved them.
But, if you are absolutely certain a person can help you with your plans without having any negativity associated with them, share your intention with them. There are supportive people worthy of your trust.
Remember that the battle you are fighting is entirely in the domain of the mind. Your mind above all material things.
Increase your mental powers by practicing concentration and stillness of your mind. That way you can summon more focus and make your motivation much clearer.
What’s your favorite way to increase the creative powers of your mind? You can share it in the comments below.
Below you may find some of the most beautiful and inspiring quotes about Divine love from famous spiritual teachers and masters. There is nothing more powerful and uplifting than reading about love. Divine love. So take your time and let these words find a fertile soil in the depths of your soul. Enjoy!
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.
~Sri Yukteswar Giri
The measure of love
is to love without measure.
~ Saint Augustine
Divine love makes us true to ourselves and to others… Divine love is the solution to our difficulties and problems. It frees us from every kind of binding. It makes us speak truly, think truly, and act truly. It makes us feel one with the whole universe. Divine love purifies our hearts and glorifies our being.
~Meher Baba
All you need is love.
~John Lennon
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Through intense deep meditation you reach a state that is beyond thought, beyond change, beyond imagination, beyond differences and duality. Once you can stay in that state for a while and come out of it without losing any of it, then the inner divine love will begin to pour through you. You will not see people as different, separate individuals. You will see your own Self in everyone around you. Then the flow of love from within you will be constant and unbroken.
~Swami Muktananda
Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don’ts,
Not the God who ever does anything weird,
But the God who knows only 4 words.
And keeps repeating them, saying:
“Come Dance with Me , come dance.”
~Hafiz
Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.
~Deepak Chopra
No Name, No Form, No Past, No Future, No Personal Story …NO PROBLEM. This is the timeless dimension of Pure Being.
~Anon I mus
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
~Sathya Sai Baba
Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.” “Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. It makes all it touches sacred.
~Barbara De Angelis
I hold to faith in the divine love – which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ – as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun.
~Paramahansa Yogananda
God’s love is the supreme love. There is no love greater than that. The love that is born of instinct has its defects because it is compelled. That is why I sang to God as Divine Mother, “In this world, Mother, no one can love me; in this world they do not know how to love me.” Only the divine love of great ones is born of wisdom. That love is infinitely greater than parental or any other form of human love—Jesus gave up his life for the world.
~Paramahansa Yogananda
Love is the echo of God’s voice trying to reverberate through mute stones, through rain, wind, fragrance, vitalizing light and plumed songbirds; it reverberates through the cries and laughter of babies, through unconditioned mother love, and through dumb and articulate hearts.
~Paramahansa Yogananda
Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
~C.S. Lewis
Physical love must end up as a creative love. And creative love must end up as a divine love. And divine love must end up as a unison love. And unison love must become God Itself. These are the known stages of love.
~Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.
~Mary Bakker Eddy
Do you judge the beauty of nature? No, it is all beautiful to you in a myriad of different ways. You do not compare the beauty of a sunset to the beauty of a blossom and say one is more beautiful than the other. In the same fashion do not compare yourself with anyone else. Each one of you is awesomely beauteous in your own unique and divine fashion. Without you, beloved, the universe would not be the same.
~P’taah
In love, you don’t expect anything. If you want something in return, don’t call it love.
~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
~Paulo Coelho
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
~Rainer Maria Rilke
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
~Rumi
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
~Rumi
A true lover doesn’t follow any one religion, be sure of that. Since in the religion of love, there is no irreverence or faith.
When in love, body, mind, heart and soul don’t even exist. Become this, fall in love, and you will not be separated again.
~Rumi
Those who don’t feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in sunset like supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep.
This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I’ve given up on my brain. I’ve torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away.
If you’re not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep.
~Rumi
Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
~Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
~Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Practice love until you remember that you are love… …we talk about loving others… but who are you really loving? You’re only loving yourself. So it’s good enough if you can at least cause no harm to others. Be within yourself and learn to love and perfect yourself. If you spend enough time loving yourself and the Jesus inside you, or the Ramakrishna inside you, or the Buddha or the Allah inside you, then that love will grow and blossom within you. Then it’s very easy to love others. So you think, so you become.
~Swami Sai Premananda
Beggar’s love is no love at all. The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, when it gives everything.
~Swami Vivekananda
Every act of love brings happiness; there is no act of love which does not bring peace and blessedness as its reaction.
~Swami Vivekananda
Let nothing stand between God and your love for Him. Love Him, love Him, love Him; and let the world say what it will. Love is of three sorts — one demands, but gives nothing; the second is exchange; and the third is love without thought of return — love like that of the moth for the light.
~Swami Vivekananda
Love may be symbolised by a triangle. The first angle is, love never begs, never asks for anything; the second, love knows no fear; the third and the apex, love for love’s sake.
~Swami Vivekananda
Wherever there is love, wherever there is a spark of joy, know that to be a spark of His presence because He is joy, blessedness, and love itself. Without that there cannot be any love.
~Swami Vivekananda
It seems that we do not understand one thing: it is not good when we return the love of those who love us, yet hate those who hate us. We are not on the right path if we do this. We are the sons of light and love, the sons of God, his children. As such we must have His qualities and His attributes of love, peace, and kindness towards all.
~Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down to a perfectly normal state; and invigorating the vital powers, expels all foreign matters- the germs of diseases-by natural ways (perspiration and so forth). It thereby makes man perfectly healthy in body and mind, And enables him to understand properly the guidance of Nature.
~Sri Yukteswar
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.
~Sri Yukteswar
Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.
~Sri Chinmoy
Love means acceptance. What are we going to accept? We are going to accept this world of ours which is around us and within us.
~Sri Chinmoy
Divine love does not mean an emotional exchange of human thoughts or ideas, but it means the fulfilment of oneness. At times it may demand highest Justice; at times it may demand infinite Compassion. Inside infinite Compassion, we shall feel the living breath of love. Again, inside the supreme Justice, we shall feel the living presence of love.
~Sri Chinmoy
Love of the limited self, the very limited self, is another name for human love. Love of the entire world is another name for divine love.
~Sri Chinmoy
In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest. ~Mary Baker Eddy
Many things you are already practicing; but you practice them under fear. But if you practice them under love they become Divine.
~Yogi Bhajan
Mostly your love is passionate force. But when this passionate force turns itself to be a compassionate force under the guidance of compassionate intelligence, that is where one becomes brahm giani. One knows all, one sees all, one says all.
~Yogi Bhajan
Love means total interest; love means total creativity; love means total input. Who has that for you? Who has given you values? Who has given you character? Who has told you, “Stand for righteousness and I’ll stand behind you”?
~Yogi Bhajan
Hate nobody; love everybody. It won’t cost you anything. Love never costs anything. Love is the most selfish act. It gives you so much protection, grace, and radiance. It doesn’t give you any smallness or suffering. The attitude of conscious living is to love and give grace to someone worthy of your trust. Do not seek anything from people. Give love instead, and rely on God.
~Yogi Bhajan
Your question is, ‘Can you talk about the art of nourishing oneself with love?’ There is no art because there is no need of any effort. Love is the nourishment. But humanity has been so confused by its leaders that one does not know the most inner realms of one’s own being. Love is nourishment in itself. The more you love, the more you will find untrodden spaces where love goes on and on spreading around you like an aura.
~Osho
We are not our bodies, our possessions or our careers. Who we are is divine love and that is infinite.
~Wayne Dyer
The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
~Alan Cohen
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
~Dalai Lama
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
~Zora Neale Hurston
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
~William Blake
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
~Emmanuel
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a spiritual guru who developed the famous Transcendental Meditation technique. His organization grew very quickly and was transformed into a powerfulr spiritual movement. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a disciple of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the spiritual leader of Jyotirmath in the Himalayas. In the 60s and 70s, Maharishi became famous as the guru to The Beatles.
Maharishi was reported to have promoted more than 40,000 teachers of transcendental meditation. These, in turn, have taught his technique to more than five million people.
Here are some of its quotes about Transcendental Meditation and related subjects:
If we are able to meet these two requirements – regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life – then nothing would be unattainable by us.
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become
Fulfilment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness.
A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.
It is the purity of man’s heart and mind, and his innocent and faithful approach to action with the purpose of all good to everyone, which really succeeds in yielding maximum results with minimum effort.
Whatever we put our attention on, will grow stronger in our life.
Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.
If we think of defeat, that is what we will get. If we are undecided, nothing will happen to us. We must just pick something great to do and do it. Never do we think of failure at all, for as we think now, that is what we will get.
By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every individual and every society to its full dignity, in which problems are absent and perfect health, happiness, and a rapid pace of progress are the natural features of life.
The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life.
You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.
Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.
The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
What makes one luckier is the good that he has done to others. It comes back to him. A man doesn’t become lucky by doing wrong. He becomes lucky because he has done good to others and that good comes back to him. And now he is lucky.
No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view.
The fortunate one uses the instrument of meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.
Don’t go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.
A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life.
What we have been saying from the beginning of the movement has been unbelievable but it has come to be believed. We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible – and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality.
The secret of success in business is creativity. The urgent need in business today is to develop the field of creativity that lies deep within each individual. Through Transcendental Meditation the awareness of the individual comes into contact with this field of unlimited creativity, pure consciousness, the Constitution of the Universe.
Meditate and enjoy.
Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life – whether you enjoy or suffer – it is your own responsibility. Be regular in your meditation and do not postpone for a later date your striving for God consciousness.
Love opens all doors, no matter how closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time.
Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy.
If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.
Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. You may not always have an ocean of bliss, but think that way anyway and it will help it come. Doubting is not blissful and does not create happiness.
The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.
Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.
There is nothing in life to take seriously except the joy of life.
We are born only to bless, not to punish. This you should never forget. We should always see good things in others – very important. We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough. ‘God helps those who help themselves.’ – it’s a very true saying. We are aware of darkness but for our own community we want to have Enlightenment.
Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.
When you are appreciating creation as much as the Creator, then the Creator will ask, ‘Who is appreciating my creation as much as me. Let me see this person.’
Nine rules of life: Don’t analyze. Don’t complain. Don’t compare yourself to others. Don’t expect things to be done for you. Don’t expect perfection in the relative. Look to the knowledge aspect daily. Own the movement. Problems are all in your head. Hold yourself together.
So transcendental meditation brings about transcendental consciousness, which is self-referral consciousness, the source of all intelligence.
If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world’s winds will take us where they wish, not where WE wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.
Enjoy your life and be happy. Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. More support of nature comes from being happy. Under all circumstances be happy, even if you have to force it a bit to change some long standing habits.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!
Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness.
Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody’s inner personality.
Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.
In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.
Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole of the universe is nothing but ananda (bliss).
