Nilakanta Sri Ram famous quotes

03-28-2025

Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep and intimate as though it has but one object, yet it is ready to be centered on any person, to flow to any point of need.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Needs #Flow
There is no wisdom without love.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Wisdom
What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Willing #Inflation
He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or action, who has found that centre of balance which is always over his point of contact with circumstances. He is the man whom Nature pours the riches of all her instincts.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Wise #Spiritual #Men
What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Men #Perfection
Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Opposites #Matter
We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet be present in every circumstance and incident.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Incentives #Incidents
The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Children #Integrity
Each must discover his own way in life, and that way lies in his heart. Let him delve deeply into the depths of his being; his true centre is not far from there.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Lying #Heart
Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Perfection #Mind
What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live, which comes from within ourselves.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #World #Three
Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Resistance #Would Be
Ideal Love, stepped down to the level of the practical, day-to-day life, must mean the service of each to all within his or her sphere, a delicate consideration of others, a control that gives rise to peace, and cessation from every thought of cruelty and lust.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Mean #Giving
No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Spiritual #Humanity #Divinity
Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.
-- Nilakanta Sri Ram

#Lying #Knowledge #Use

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