JESUS DECLARED THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS THE SEED.(Luke 8:11 )That word, that seed, is living and active, according to Hebrews 4:12. There is life in the seed.The apostle Peter wrote that "the word of seed....liveth and abideth forever."(1 pet.1:23)
Further, the same apostle wrote that "The word of the lord endureth forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." (1pet.1:25 )

• The control of mind is said to be the highest Yoga; It is like the control of an unruly horse which must be made to obey its rider.
  
  
• Humility, Unostentatiousness, Harmlessness, Forbearance, Uprightness, Service to guru, Purity, Steadiness and Self-control - All this is called Knowledge.
  
  
• BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART, FOR TO THEM IS GIVEN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
  
  
• THE MAN WHO HAS NO DESIRE AND CARES FOR NOTHING, ATTAINS DEVOTION TO ME.
  
  -- Lord SriKrishna*

  About INDIA :

• " We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made "
  - Albert Einstein
  
  
• "India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only"
  - Mark Twain
  
  
• "It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system".
  - Will Durant (American Historian, 1885-1981)
  
  
• " Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night".
  - Thoreau (American Thinker)
  
  
• "Let all of us Hindus, Mussalmans, Parsi's, Sikhs, Christians live amicably as Indians, Pledged to live and die for our motherland".
  - Mahatma Gandhi
  
  

• If you love someone, Set her free - If She comes back, She's yours - If She doesn't, She never was
  
  
• All creatures are the family of God; And he the most beloved is of God who does most good unto his family.
  -- Holy Prophet Muhammad
  
  
• Three Things To Cultivate -
  Sympathy, Cheerfulness And Satisfaction.
  
  
• The Family is one of the nature's master pieces.
  -- George Santayana*
  
  
• I fear the human race will not survive another Millennium. I am afraid the atmosphere might get hotter and hotter until it will be like Venus with boiling Sulfuric acid. I am worried about the green house effect.
  -- Stephen Hawking*
  
  
• A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
  -- Raymond Hitchcock*
  
  
• A smile is better than the most expensive gift.
  -- Helen Keller*
  
  
• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
  -- Winston Churchill*
  
  
• The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
  -- Anon*
  
  
• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.
  
  
• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
  -- Lord Buddha*
  
  
• I Have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
  -- Henry Miller*
  
  
• We are all born for love.It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli*
  
  
• True friends stab you in front.
  -- Oscar Wilde*
  
  
• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
  -- William Shakespeare*
  
  
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act but a habit.
  -- Aristotle*
  
  
• If you want to make beautiful music , you must play the black and the white notes together.
  -- Richard M Nixon*
  
  
• To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
  -- George Washington*
  
  
• A bad neighbour is as great a plague as a good one is blessing; he who enjoys a good neighbour has a precious possession.
  -- Hesiod*
  
  
• I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friend-ship, three for society.
  -- Henry David Thoreau*
  
  
• My factories make an end of war sooner than your congresses.The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilised nations will recoil from war.
  -- Alfred Nobel*
  
  
• The greater our Knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
  -- John F Kennedy*
  
  
• You know that you know nothing. Find out that Knowledge. That is liberation, Mukti.
  -- Sri Ramana Maharshi*
  
  
• The perfection of human knowledge is ignorance of Divine Knowledge. You must know enough to know that you do not know.
  -- Hujwiri*
  
  
• It is my experience that bold decisions give best promise of success.
  -- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel*
  
  
• Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
  -- Mahatma Gandhi*
  
  
• In the family, may discipline overcome indiscipline, peace dischord, charity miserliness, devotion arrogance, and the truth-spoken word the false-spoken word.
  -- Avesta, YASNA 60.5
  
  
• To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; But to know the truth and not to conform one's action to it is a crime which heaven and earth condemn.
  -- Giuseppe Mazzini*
  
  
• THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE BEAUTY OF THEIR DREAMS.
  -- Eleanor Roosevelt*
  
  
• Animals are such agreeable friends; They ask no questions, Pass no criticisms.
  -- George Eliot*
  
  
• Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problems - Will be presented to every generation in different forms.
  -- Winston Churchill*
  
  
• The greatest thing is Prudence; A more precious thing even than Philosphy; From it springs all other virtues.
  -- Epicurus*
  
  
• You cannot do a kindness to soon, For you never know how soon it will be too late.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson*
  
  
• We can go to the limits of this universe, but we shall still find God spread out beyond. We can dive ever deeper into the heart of each atom of matter, only to discover with unabated wonderment that we have entered a greater realm of his power and glory. He can reveal himself to us only when our mind stops functioning.. we try to grasp this truth with our puny little mind and senses, and all we can clasp is a pebble.
  -- Swami Venkatesananda*
  
  
• It is only when we are not disturbed that we can always do the right thing at the right time in the right way
  -- The mother, Sri Aurbindo Ashram*
  
  
• He who will not reason is a bigot ; He who cannot is a fool ; And he who dares not is a slave.
  -- William Drummond*
  
  
• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.
  -- Mahatma Gandhi*
  
  
• The life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
  -- Swami Vivekananda*
  
  
• Whatever harm an enemy may do to an enemy or a hater to a hater, an ill-directed mind inflicts on oneself a greater harm.
  -- Lord Buddha*
  
  
• Truth is noble and sweet, truth can deliver you from evil. There is no saviour in the world except truth.
  -- Lord Buddha*
  
  
• What you feel moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
  -- Ernest Hemingway*
  
  
• Whatever action is performed by a great man, Common men will follow in his foot steps. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.
  -- Bhagavatam (Canto1, Ch.14), by Swami Prabhupada ISKCON*

• Lo! those of mankind who have the best claim to Abraham are those who followed him, and this Prophet and those who believe (with him); and Allah is the Protecting Guardian of the believers.
  -- [Al-Imran 3:68 - QUR'AN]
  
  
• God does command you to render back your trusts to those to whom they are due; and when you judge between man and man, that you judge with justice: verily how excellent is the teaching He gives to you! For God is He who hears and sees all things.
  -- [ QUR'AN iv.58-59 ]

FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

• EXISTENCE OF SORROW
• CAUSE OF SORROW
• CESSATION OF SORROW
• WAY WHICH LEADS TO THE CESSATION OF SORROW
  
  EIGHT FOLD PATH
  
  
• RIGHT UNDERSTANDING
  (free from superstition and delusion)
  
  
• RIGHT THOUGHT
  (high and worthy of the intelligent)
  
  
• RIGHT SPEECH
  (kindly,open,truthful)
  
  
• RIGHT ACTIONS
  (peaceful,honest,pure)
  
  
• RIGHT LIVELIHOOD
  (notbringing hurt or danger to living being)
  
  
• RIGHT EFFORT
  (in self-training and in self-control)
  
  
• RIGHT MINDFULNESS
  (the active watchful mind)
  
  
• RIGHT CONCENTRATION
  (in deep meditation on the realities of life)
  
  -- Lord Buddha*

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
  -- W Somerset Maughan*
  
  
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
  - Mahatma Gandhi*
  
  
• He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
  -- Aesop*
  
  
• If we don't change, We don't grow. If we don't grow, We aren't living.
  -- Gail Sheehy*
  
  
• Without a struggle, There can be no progress.
  -- Frederick Douglass*
  
  
• If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.
  -- Dave Weinbaum*
  
  
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us ...
  -- Helen Keller*
  
  

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  FEEL, MY CHILDREN,FEEL; FEEL FOR THE POOR, THE IGNORANT, THE DOWN TRODDEN; FEEL TILL THE HEART STOPS AND THE BRAIN REELS AND YOU THINK YOU WILL GO MAD; THEN POUR THE SOUL OUT AT THE FEET OF THE LORD AND THEY WILL COME POWER,HELP, AND INDOMITABLE ENERGY
  
  -- Swami Vivekananda*

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• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
  -- Victor Borge*
  
  
• Honest disagreement is often a good progress.
  -- Mahatma Gandhi*
  
  
• Scepticism is the first step on the road to philosphy.
  -- Denis Diderot*
  
  
• The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
  -- Ruth Brown*
  
  
• Beauty isn't worth thinking about; What's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
  -- Garrison Keillor*
  
  
• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
  -- Nelson Mandela*
  
  
• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
  -- Sir Winston Churchill*
  
  
• The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
  -- Hubert Humphrey*
  
  
• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.
  -- Hellen Keller*
  
  
• The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
  -- Anon*
  
  
• Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
  -- Conflucius*
  
  
• When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
  -- Walter Lippmann*
  
  
• A Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.
  -- Anon*
  
  
• Better keep yourself clean and bright ; You are the window through which you must see the world.
  -- George BernardShaw*
  
  
• Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
  -- Voltaire*
  
  
• The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
  -- Goy Talese*
  
  
• Love means never having to say you're sorry.
  -- Erich Segal*
  
  
• In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.
  -- Louis Pasteur*
  
  
• To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; To read it a second time is to meet an old one.
  -- Selwyn G Champion*
  
  
• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions. It only guarantees equality of opportunity.
  -- Irving Kristol*
  
  
• Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive then it does on intelligence.This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
  -- Sloan Wilson*
  
  
• One friend a lifetime is much; Two are many; Three are hardly possible.Friendship needs a certain parallelsim of life, A community of thought, A rivalry of aim.
  -- Henry Adams*
  
  
• I dont' wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that.
  -- Pearl Buck*
  
  
• Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is more certain support than all other possessions.
  -- Bias*
  
  
• Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
  -- Josephus Daniels*
  
  
• Friendship like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
  -- Samuel Johnson*
  
  
• Age appears to be the best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
  -- Francis Bacon*
  
  
• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense.
  -- Henry Ward Beecher*
  
  
• Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe in and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.
  -- Paul J Meyer*
  
  
• Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
  -- Napolean*
  
  
• Science bestowed immense new powers on man and at the same time created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension and still more beyond his control.
  -- Winston Churchill*
  
  
• What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli*
  
  
• War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
  -- Jonathan Swift*
  
  
• It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
  -- Gwethe*
  
  
• Concentration is the secret of strength in Politics, in War, in Trade, in short, in all Management of Human affairs.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson*
  
  
• What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and whoever it may lead.
  -- Dostoevsky*
  
  
• As long as any man exists, there is some need for him; Let him fight for his own.
  -- Emerson*
  
  
• All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
  -- Jose Ortega Y Gasset*
  
  
• The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he made so many of them.
  -- Abraham Lincoln*
  
  
• He who bestows his good upon the poor shall have as much gain and ten times more.
  -- John Bunyan*
  
  
• Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
  -- Tagore*
  
  
• No nation is fit to sit in judgement on any other nation.
  -- Woodrow Wilson*
  
  
• Damn your principles, stick to your party.
  -- Benjamin Disraeli*
  
  
• Difficult things take a long time, the impossible things takes a little longer.
  -- C Weizmann*
  
  
• We easily remember the successful developments, but we should not forget those ideas that failed, since the road towards the future takes many turns and those older ideas that failed in the past may have new applications in the future.
  -- David A Johnson*
  
  
• If it's possible, it can be done; If it's impossible it must be done.
  -- Napolean Bonaparte*
  
  
• A lie told often enough becomes truth.
  -- Lenin*
  
  
• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
  -- Walter Bagehot*
  
  
• In Science we must be interested in things, not in persons.
  -- Marie Curie*
  
  
• God's sanction is the immediate cause for all happenings, good or bad. Any successful man should feel grateful to the lord for all he has achieved.
  -- Bhagavatam (Canto1, Ch.14), by Swami Prabhupada ISKCON*