H. W. L. Poonja Quotes
Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.
Quotes to Explore
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.
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When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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People plan, God laughs.
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Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.
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My name is Oprah Winfrey. I have a talk show. I'm single. I have eight dogs-five golden retrievers, two black labs, and a mongrel. I have four years of college.
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I feel like every first episode of a TV show is bad, you know, and it always improves.
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Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.
