All Quotes By Tag: Self-help

“Do your worldly life things through the instruments of the worldly life. And You are to ‘see’ and ‘know’ all that.”

“The understanding of knowledge that increases intoxication (of ‘I Know’) is terrible ignorance. Intoxication (of ‘I know’) is dissolved with (right) knowledge.”

“Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) will not leave through suppression, they will leave through Gnan (Self-realization).”

“Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present ‘at a time’ exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self).”

“I am Chandubhai’ (name used by Dadashri to refer to the relative self) is good or bad upayog (applied awareness). ‘I am Pure Soul’ is shuddha upayog (pure applied awareness as the Self). Instillation of life in the world occurs with good or bad upayog.”

“Greatest dharma (one’s greatest religion) is to stop artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others). There is no greater dharma (religion) beyond that.”

“If one does not get instigated while someone tries to instigate, that is called a spiritual victory.”

“The best advice that I got during counseling: Don’t judge your spouse’s grief response. Give them the freedom to grieve their own way. – Rachel Crawford”

“Trust your partner’s way of coping to be the best they are able to do and be at every moment in time.”

“I don’t think we had a joint mission to keep our relationship together. It was like: “Every man for himself.” I was in so much pain, I wasn’t really looking out for your interests. I didn’t have the facility or resource to really do that, to be there for you. Thankfully everything held together. Our love for each other kept on a progression. It could have easily gone the other way.” – Jonathan Pascual”

“Honestly, death took on a totally different meaning for me in the past years…..I don’t feel the fear or trepidation about death that I used to feel. I felt tired of living.”

“When my wife and I lost our son, we had similar but very different experiences. She felt she was caught in a blizzard and she doesn’t remember the six months after we lost him. For me, it was like everything that I had known burnt to the ground, this field or forest that was turned to ash, burning, smoldering. How do I make sense of a world where this can happen? – Sean Hanish”

“We do not “get over” a death. We learn to carry the grief and integrate the loss in our lives. In our hearts, we carry those who have died. We grieve and we love. We remember.”

“There is no right way to grieve; there is only your way to grieve and that is different for everyone.”

“There are many different ways in which individuals express, experience, and adapt to grief. Understanding and accepting different ways of grieving lies at the heart of surviving your loss as a couple. Understanding is helpful but not absolutely necessary. Acceptance of your partner’s approach however is a necessity. If you have not reached acceptance, make it your first priority.”