Quote Collection
"I never liked the idea of having a moustache, but then it grew on me." — Adolf Hitler
"When you make radical changes in diet it's like a rubber band that snaps back again because psychologically you feel deprived and once you feel deprived the diet's probably going to fail. The best way to make changes in one's diet is to do it gradually." — Unknown
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." ― Rumi
"We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do." — M.K Gandhi
"Once we were particles of light, now we are beings of light, radiating love." — Rumi
"For mercy has a human heart, pity a human face, and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. Then every man, of every clime, that prays in his distress, prays to the human form divine, love, mercy, pity, and peace." — William Blake
"Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there." — Rumi
"Concentrate exclusively on eating whenever you are eating. Let this principle become your mantra. The organ involved in eating is the same organ used for talking. Don't use your mouth for both at the same time. Social eating leads to overeating and impaired digestion. Being psychologically present when you eat is the key to liberating yourself from hunger. When you eat and socialise at the same time, your awareness of eating diminishes. You'll quickly feel hungry again. Eating is personal. You can allocate other times for family. Teach children to eat in silence and gratitude, concentrating on the moment. Smell your food with every bite, with full awareness of that bite." — Unknown
"While I am eating, I am deaf and dumb." — Russian Proverb
"The date I met Gandhi was July 27, 1946 in New Delhi, which would become the capital of the new Republic of India a year and a month later. (Indians independence became official on August 15, 1947). At Gandhi's headquarters there, I received permission to accompany this amazing man on a 21 day fasting trip eastward, where he would talk with the people and help them with their problems. At that time, the average Indian earned about 10 cents a day and starvation was a way of life. To show he share their plight, this saintly and compassionate spiritual leader was planning to travel the dusty roads from village to village on foot, without food, only water, for 3 weeks. Gandhi was then 77 years of age and looked frail in appearance. But his looks were indeed deceiving! This man was a tower of strength...physically, mentally and spiritually. His stamina, endurance, energy and mental abilities were astounding to everyone, including me! The trek began at sunup. The heat and humidity were the worst I have ever experienced. I have spent time in some of the hottest spots in the world, including the Sahara Desert and across North African on an 800 mile bicycle trip in intense summer heat. But never once did he falter in his brisk pace of walking. The only time he sat down was during talks with the villagers. He would speak for 20 minutes, then answer questions for 20 minutes. Then we continued down the hot, dusty road to the next village. Gandhi ate nothing and drank only water flavoured with lemon and honey. Many who tried to travel with him fell by the wayside, suffering from heat and exhaustion. But Gandhi was inexhaustible! I have been an athlete and hiker all my life, but I have never seen anyone who had the physical stamina and energy that Gandhi had. Each day he walked and talked until sundown before stopping for a rest. During the 21 day fasting walk, I had many talks with Gandhi on the power of fasting. Of all I learned from him, this statement seems to me the summation, "All the vitality and energy I have comes to me because my body is purified by fasting." — Paul Bragg
"Exercise until the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue." — Socrates
"I had obese patients that eliminated from their body as much as 50 to 60 pounds of waste, and 10 to 15 pounds alone from the colon-mainly consisting of foreign matters, especially old, hardened, feces. The average so-called "healthy" person of today carries continually with them since childhood, several pounds of never-eliminated feces." — Arnold Ehret
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." — Albert Einstein
"The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called genius, heroism, holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it." — Henry David Thoreau
"Nature is not mute, it is man who is deaf." — Terence McKenna
"Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings, and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life." — John Muir
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." — Nikola Tesla
"Based on my experience with losing my left mind, I whole-heartedly believe that the feeling of deep inner peace is neurological circuitry located in our right brain. At first I was shocked to find myself inside of a silent mind. But then I was immediately captivated by the magnificence of energy around me. And because I could no longer identify the boundaries of my body, I felt enormous and expansive. I felt at one with all the energy that is, and it was beautiful there." — Jill Bolte Taylor (My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey)
"And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel (Pineal gland or Third eye): for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved." — The Bible (Genesis 32:30)
"The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions." — Florence Nightingale
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." — Jiddu Krishnamurti
"There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music. with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire." — Rumi
"According to Indian Ayurvedic medicine, which was popular during the lifetime of the Buddha, the digestive fire is maximal during the waxing of the sun, and it is during this time that food should be taken. From midnight until noon energy waxes; from noon until midnight, energy wanes. When energy is waning breathing exercises are of no benefit. It is best to breathing exercises early in the morning, according to Western Science, which has determined that the concentration of negative ions in the air is greatest between 3-6am." — Tonya Zavasta
"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature." — Marcus Aurelius
"This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. The order of things should be somewhat reversed; the seventh should be man's day of toil, wherein to earn his living by the sweat of his brow; and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul,—in which to range this widespread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature." — Henry David Thoreau
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience." — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
"If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in that moment. You see so much more than you could see before." — Steve Jobs
"Dry fasting eliminates inflammation the same way a swamp is cleansed of mosquitos and other insects when it dries up." — Tonya Zavasta
"Fasting cures disease, dries bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clear, and the heart pure, and the body sanctified and raises humanity to the throne of God." — Athenaeus of Naucratis
"Health is the greatest of human blessings." — Hippocrates
"If the volume of brain matter increases, the research about the benefits of yoga suggests that not only that the brain is making new synaptic connections but also new neurons are actually growing and thus being added to our gray matter—a concept called neurogenesis, once thought impossible by neuroscientists." — Joe Dispenza
"By holding the intention of peace towards water, by thinking, speaking and acting with the intention of peace towards water, water can and will bring peace, to our bodies and to the world." — Masaru Emoto
"Once when the Buddha was touring in the region of Kasi together with a large Sandha of monks, he addressed them saying "I, monks, do not eat a meal in the evening. Not eating a meal in the evening, I, monks, am aware of good health and of being without illness and of buoyancy and strength and living in comfort. Come, do you, too, monks, not eat a meal in the evening. Not eating a meal in the evening, you, too, monks will be aware of good health, and living in comfort." — Kitagiri Sutta of the Majhima Nikaya
"You cannot make people happy in your way; you must let them be happy, or unhappy, in their own way." — Marcus Aurelius
"Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing off from the world. You're strengthening yourself so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world. The thing about meditation is: You become more and more you." — David Lynch
"Whatever marks the character of a landscape, the profile of mountains, the deep gloom of pine forests, the mountain torrent rushing headlong over cliffs. All stand alike in an ancient and mysterious communion with the spiritual life of man. From this arises the nobler portion of the enjoyment which nature affords, and nowhere does she more deeply impress us with a sense of her greatness, nowhere does she speak to us more forcibly than in the tropical world." — Alexander Von Humboldt
"But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is." — Alan Watts
"Pure science can demonstrate that there is only one substance in the universe, and it is pure light that is put in motion by our consciousness. From that there is a design where we are all participants, and through our consciousness we have the ability to produce thought. Walter Russell went back to the understanding that the universe is self created by us. There is nothing external to us. We are Nature. Humanity is not some evil-doer screwing up Nature, that is another original sin concept that's been fed to us so that we think we are bad and never discover or reach our full potential. We are the power that fuels the universe, there is a natural design, and we have all individually been given permission to be a participant in that, and we have to start doing our job again. First it starts with rolling up our sleeves and doing the work on the ground, but our work will be fruitless unless we have knowledge of who we are in the first place." — Barre Paul Lando
"Instead of medicine, fast for a day." — Plutarch
"On average, you breathe twenty to twenty-five breaths per minutes. In good health you breathe ten times a minute, and a mentally balanced person breathes seven to nine times per minute. Fewer than that and you are a yogi." — Yogi Bhajan
"No disease, including cancer, can exist in an alkaline environment." — Otto Warburg
"Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal." — Herbert Shelton
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate." — Carl Jung
"However long the fast may continue, no danger whatsoever from starvation need be feared, since hunger will always return before the danger point is reached. Thus, so long as hunger is absent, it is a plain indication that no food is required. I cannot too strongly impress this point upon my readers - that natural hunger, and that alone should indicate the terminus of the fast. That this signal is invariably given at the proper time, and in the proper way, and that absolutely no danger from starvation need be apprehended until the signal has been given, is absolutely true. Most persons have never experienced normal hunger in all their lives! Their appetite and taste are perverted by overfeeding in infancy, and never had a chance to become normal during the whole course of their lives - owing to the overfeeding being continued ever since." — Hereward Carrington
"What eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner." — M.K Gandhi
"Hunger is a mouth and throat sensation, rather than a stomach sensation. The condition is one of comfort, not of discomfort and suffering. It is indicated by a watering of the mouth and often a distinct desire for a particular food." — Herbert Shelton
"All of humanity's problems stems from the inability to sit quietly in a room alone." — Blaise Pascal
"If want to improve the world we cannot do it with scientific knowledge but with ideals. Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Gandhi have done more for humanity than science has done. We must begin with the heart of man - with his conscience - and the values of conscience can only be manifested by selfless service to mankind." — Albert Einstein
"I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency." — Plato
"Fasting is the key which unlocks Nature's storehouse of Energy. Fasting rewards you with increased Energy. Each time you fast, you will make your mind stronger, and more positive. You will eliminate fear and worry. Fasting helps you to a higher life. Fasting elevates the soul, the mind, and body. By fasting you can create the person you have always longed to be. That is, if you demand only the best life can offer. When your body is cleansed by fasting and you are living a natural healthy life, you will discover that you feel wonderful all the time. This is because Nature intended man to be a happy, well-balanced person, free of fears, of frustrations, stresses and strains." — Paul Bragg
"Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again." — The Bible (Jesus Christ)
"My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration." — Nikola Tesla
"Prana is a living force, the outpouring of vitality from the sun that we breathe in with the air and absorb into every cell of our body. Prana is like a pure stream, cascading down from the mountain heights, its waters charged with every kind of element for the nourishment not only of the fish swimming in its waters but also for the animals and people living along its banks. Prana is a great river flowing from the sun, and by meditation and breathing exercises, we can obtain all the elements we need from it." — Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
"A little starvation can do more for the average sick man than the best medicines and the best doctors. I speak from experience; starvation has been my cold and fever doctor for 15 years." — Mark Twain
"When you start meditating, it can be a challenging at first, because thoughts do come up. Let them happen, and just observe them. Sit long enough, and try not to get frustrated. The key is the frustration, as this means you have an attachment to letting go of your thoughts. Get rid of that attachment. There has got to be no expectations. Let thoughts come, watch them, and if you sit long enough, you'll realise that you can outlast the thoughts. You have to let go of your desire to be in a no-mind peaceful state." — Shana Dean
"Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be." — Eckhart Tolle
"Rhythm and discipline are the keys to all healing and rejuvenation. The body processes food more slowly later in the day because our rhythms are not based on absorbing late meals but rather on rejuvenating the body. All of your day's total food intake should be consumed within a span of eight hours, preferably during the daytime, between 7am and 3pm. Eating must stop at least six hours before going to sleep. This way, you achieve 16 full hours of fasting. This regime will assure that your body gets its cleansing function entirely done each and every day. This is essential for health and youthfulness." — Tonya Zavasta
"A man once asked God "I want happiness". God replied: "First remove "I" that is ego, then remove "want" that is desire, see now you are only left with happiness." — Unknown
"In the mid-1970s at the University of Minnesota, weight control studies showed that people who ate only one 2000 calorie meal a day for a week lost weight when they ate their meal in the morning. They gained weight when they ate the same meal in the evening. In one research study, normal-weight volunteers ate meals chosen from canned foods and military rations. They lost weight on the breakfast schedule. The volunteers who ate on a dinner schedule maintained the same weight or gained a little." — Tonya Zavasta
"Through meditation, the Higher Self is experienced." — Bhagavad Gita
"The reabsorption of semen by the blood is the strongest nourishment and, perhaps more than any other factor, it prompts the stimulus of power, the unrest of all forces toward the overcoming of resistances, the thirst for contradiction and resistance. The feeling of power has so far mounted highest abstinent priests and hermits. (for example, among the Brahmans)" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented, hence meditation means creating a space of no-mind. That space is always contented." — Osho
"The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." — Bill Hicks
"He who has a mind to eat a great deal must eat but little. Eating little makes life long, and living long he must eat much." — Proverb
"The body is an important instrument for Self-realisation. The instrument must be kept clean, strong and healthy. Vedantins can harmoniously combine Pranayama's and Asana's to their best advantage. I have taught Sarvangasana to hundreds of persons. I have started a Sirsha-Sarvanga propoganda. Sirsasana (headstand) is the King of the Asana's and Sarvangasana (shoulderstand) is the Queen of asana's. I generally recommend these two Asana's, combined with Paschimottanasana (sitting forward bend) invariably to those who approach me. These three Asana's alone can keep you in perfect health." — Swami Sivananda
"Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within." — Paracelsus
"My love she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence, she doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true, like ice, like fire. People carry roses, and make promises by the hours, my love she laughs like the flowers, valentines can't buy her." — Bob Dylan
"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do." — Herman Hesse
"Meditation is the key that will open the door to your inner self, wherein lies all the true power for material manifestation, for as sound springs from the silences, so does positive action come from inner knowing." — Walter Russell
"The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power." — Nikola Tesla
"The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter." — Bill Mollison
"Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?" — The Bible (John 10:34)
"When a human being improves his inner state, the whole world is transformed because he sees it through different "spectacles". Why do lovers find the world so beautiful? Because everything in them is beautiful and poetic. It may be snowing or raining, but they are together, and for them, the sun is shining, the sky is blue, the birds are singing, and the flowers perfume the air; it is springtime in their hearts. Lovers are a magnificent lesson for spiritualists!" — Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
"God is not He who is, but That which is." — Baruch Spinoza
"Human physiology goes through a cycle, called a mandala, approximately every 40 to 48 days. In this cycle, 3 specific days will arise when the body does not demand food. Fasting on these days creates a conducive situation for health and spiritual growth. Most people can identify this cycle if they listen to the body. For those who do not have the awareness, Ekadashi - the 11th day after the full moon and new moon is fixed for fasting." — Sadhguru
"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals." — Benjamin Franklin
"The knowledge of how the mental and vital energy transform into what we want, and achieve control over all feelings. Hindus call it Kundalini Yoga. This knowledge can be learned, for what they need many years or is acquired by birth. The most of them I acquired by birth. They are in the closest connection with a sexual energy that is after the most widespread in the Universe." — Nikola Tesla
"I can prove to anybody on their own body there can exist one natural remedy: fasting and fruit diet. Fasting is the master key to mental and spiritual unfoldment and evolution." — Arnold Ehret
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." — Socrates
"There was a man who made the Guinness book of world records for the longest driving vehicle. Not refurbished, the same parts as he bought it new at a Florida showroom. It had something like two million miles on it. They said to him thousands and thousands of cars came out the same year just like this one, but this is still driving, what did you do differently? He said I read the instructions that goes with the vehicle and did exactly what they said to do. Over a certain amount of miles it said change the tires. It didn't matter what I thought they looked like. So by doing that maintenance the vehicle was as in as good condition as when he got it. What makes the human body so different? This is our vehicle, we use it every day. There is an instruction manual for the body. The universal truth that deals with universal laws." — Elitom Elamin
"Reach out your hand if your cup be empty, If your cup is full may it be again, Let it be known there is a fountain, That was not made by the hands of men." — Grateful Dead
"'If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to?' asked the Samurai. 'He who tried to deliver it' replied one of his disciples. 'The same goes for envy, anger and insults' said the master. 'When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.'" — Paulo Coelho
"What is now proved was once only imagined." — William Blake
"There was an experiment with rats where one group drank only water and the other group were fed. Both groups were exposed to radiation and all the rats that were fed died. The rats who didn't eat were unaffected. This would suggest that people with cancer who choose to go through with chemotherapy would benefit by abstaining from food." — Unknown
"The kingdom of God is within you." — The Bible (Jesus Christ)
"Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the food which goes into your mouth. Eat not anything which fire or frost, or water has destroyed. Cook not, neither mix all things one with another. Be content with two or three sorts of food. When you eat, never eat unto fullness. Let the weight of your daily food be not less than a mina (500g), but mark that it go not beyond two. Do not trouble your body by eating often. Eat not unclean foods brought from far countries, but eat always that which your trees bear. Breathe long and deeply at all your meals. Chew well your food with your teeth, that it become water. Eat slowly. All that you eat in sorrow, or in anger, or without desire, becomes a poison in your body." — Essene Gospel of Peace (Jesus Christ)
"Meditation is listening to the divine within." — Edgar Cayce
"To meditate is to become one with God. It means to stop thinking and thus get out of the awareness of body. One can be aware of his body and of material things only while, and because, one is thinking. To concentrate is to think very hard and focus your thoughts to a point. To meditate is just the opposite. It means to expand one's thoughts into space until one stops thinking and steps into the still Light of knowing. Thinking is sensing, and sensing is vibratory motion. Conversely, meditation is becoming still in order to talk with God. When I say 'talk with God' I mean become inspired with His Light of all-knowing. One talks with God in timeless Light. Inspiration comes in flashes of still Light, invisible Light. If you want to know anything whatsoever, just desire to know it, then stop thinking. Try to get into a state of universal ecstasy or inner joyousness, which is a state of consciousness like unto the God-Mind. Void your mind of thoughts, thought forms and ideas. Become perfectly blank insofar as idea and form are concerned. In that manner, you become transformed from man as an individual unit of mankind, and become all Soul, the universal Soul. In that manner you make the transition from the state of sensing some things materially to knowing all things cosmically." — Walter Russell
"When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity." — Carl Jung
"Debris that remains in the body may act like a poison or may cause allergies or repeated inflammations later on. Germs do not 'attack' us, but they often multiply wherever the body's living substance is dying, breaking down, and being discharged. Germs don't cause illnesses; they feed on them. Every childhood inflammation, every cold, sore throat, ear ache, fever and rash is a healing crisis and a cleansing process, a strong effort by the human spirit to remodel the body so it can be a more suitable dwelling." — Phillip Incao, M.D
"The light of the body is the eye: (Pineal gland or Third eye) If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." — The Bible (Jesus Christ)
"It must necessarily be the case that the impressions which enter by the two eyes or by the two ears, and so on, unite with each other in some part of the body before being considered by the soul. Now it is impossible to find any such place in the whole head except this gland; moreover, it is situated in the most suitable possible place for this purpose, in the middle of all the concavities. My view is that the Pineal gland is the seat of the soul." — Réne Descartes
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." — Emily Dickinson
"When the mind is full of prayerful thoughts, everything in the world seems good and agreeable. Prayer is essential for progress in life. Begin, therefore, your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening. Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares." — M.K Gandhi
"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"There is something in addition to the physical thing which is absolutely necessary for the emoting of love or hate to take place, and that is the electro person. In religious circles we refer to it as spirit for soul. But in reality it is a measurable essence of electricity. It is light or photon. An invisible messenger particle which has the capacity to hold within itself feelings, memories, ideas, concerns, plans, hopes and fears. Physical things cannot hold those feelings. Only the invisible electro person we call soul or spirit can make those occur. Everytime you call upon your feelings, when you talk with yourself, when you think, when you plan, when you hope, it is the light within you which is active. Cars are useless without drivers, bodies are useless without drivers. Call it soul if it makes you happy, but in truth it is light. The light who is the angel, who is the spirit, who is you, who is God. God is light, and you are light. You are made in the image and likeness of God." — Bill Donahue
"Through meditation, the Higher Self is experienced." — The Bhagavad Gita
"The more you are aware that the Light of God centers you, the more you become aware that that Light is your very Self, and that your body is but an extension of your Self which you have created to manifest your Self. The more that awareness grows, the more you become the cosmic Being and the more you know. When you finally become fully aware of that Supreme Being as your very Self, you ARE that Supreme Being." — Walter Russell
To Be Continued...
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