A BOUQUET OF GREAT
THOUGHTS
Great thoughts are found in the
writings of great poets, thinkers, seers, sages, philosophers, statesmen,
social reformers, and religious scholars. To find, remember, and translate them
into action is to become morally and philosophically wiser and richer.
Look at the following thoughts and
absorb them into your memory for synthesizing them with your practical life.
1.
Guilt,
according to some scholars, is something that can be overcome. It does not
exist in Buddhist terminology. With the Buddha nature all negative things can
be purified. Guilt is incompatible with our (Buddhist) thinking as you are part
of an action but not fully responsible for it.
However, in some cases one must repent, deliberately hold
responsibility, have regret and never commit the mistake again.----His Holiness The Dalai Lama in The Path To
Tranquillity (A Book of Daily Meditations).
2.
The
river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and
its waves? When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the
same water again. Where is the distinction? Because it has been named as wave,
shall it no longer be considered as water?----Indian devotional mystic poet and saint, Kabir(1398-1518).
3. The way of lovers is different. To
them, lies from each other are better than truth from others.---Sufi mystic and Persian poet Jalal al-Din
Muhammad Rumi (1207-1273).
Rumi also said: You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the
entire ocean, in a drop.
4.
He
who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others,
wholly from attachment to his own, with intent to enhance the glory of his own
sect, in reality, by such conduct, inflicts the severest injury on his own
sect. Concord, therefore, is meritorious.----Asoka the Great (Died 232 BC at Pataliputra) former emperor of the Maurya
Empire in his twelfth edict.
5. More things are wrought by prayer
than the world dreams of. What are men better than sheep or goats, that nourish
a blind life within the brain, if, knowing God, they lift no hands of prayer
both for themselves and those who call them friends !-----The English poet Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892).
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PUNCHLINE: The more you speak of yourself, the
more you are likely to lie.
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G. R. Kanwal
13 August 2026
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