Shankara Quotes: top 28 famous quotes about Shankara

Shankara Quotes & Sayings

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The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening. — Adi Shankara

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time. — Paulo Coelho

But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient. — Adi Shankara

What destroys a craving? Realization of one's true self. - Shankara, a ninth-century sage — Carol Cottrill

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]. — Adi Shankara

Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness. — Shankara

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal. — Adi Shankara

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can. — Adlai Stevenson I

Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble. — Victor Hugo

Local self-government ... is the life-blood of liberty. — John Lothrop Motley

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! — Swami Vivekananda

The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it. — Adi Shankara

He went through a non-existant gap. — Clive Tyldesley

Colour is the skin of the world, — Sonia Delaunay

In many homes, technology meant to illuminate the mind ends up only illuminating the living room. — Joe Dilley

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self — Adi Shankara

I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses. — Willard Scott

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar — Adi Shankara

I am not surprised by any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. — Suetonius

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart. — Adi Shankara

Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That's what discrimination means in Shankara's yoga. — Frederick Lenz

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness. — Adi Shankara

Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self. — Adi Shankara

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does. — Michael Gerson

Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper. — Gary Speed

I think every actor should be always grateful when they work. — Robert Knepper