The absolute mastery of 'self'
ought to be your aim.
-William Walker Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"
-William Walker Atkinson, "A. P. Mukerji"
A Master is one who has learned
to control and dominate his or her
mental body (thoughts)
astral body (emotions)
and the physical and etheric bodies (actions).
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
to control and dominate his or her
mental body (thoughts)
astral body (emotions)
and the physical and etheric bodies (actions).
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
-W. Clement Stone
-W. Clement Stone
Mastery means the knowledge
of handling certain vibrations.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"
The key of the mastery
is always silence, at all levels,
because in the silence we discern the vibrations
and to discern them is to be able to capture them.
-Satprem
Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations
indeed knows all things.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
By ruling yourself
you will find a rare and precious master.
-Buddhist
you will find a rare and precious master.
-Buddhist
Know last the Master to be thyself;
but to this self put no form and seek for it no definition of quality.
-Aurobindo Ghose
but to this self put no form and seek for it no definition of quality.
-Aurobindo Ghose
Self is master of self;
who else would be the master?
-Dhammapada
who else would be the master?
-Dhammapada
There is no master,
there is no instructor,
there is no person
to tell you what you must do.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
Finally, man reaches
to that high state of consciousness
where he/she has no fear of anything.
One is established in the finest state of consciousness
where he/she is the master of the Self.
-H. H. Ma Yoga Shakti Saraswati
to that high state of consciousness
where he/she has no fear of anything.
One is established in the finest state of consciousness
where he/she is the master of the Self.
-H. H. Ma Yoga Shakti Saraswati
When you're really master of the myriad forms,
Throughout the four seasons there's no withering, no decay.
-Zen Saying
Throughout the four seasons there's no withering, no decay.
-Zen Saying
The Master stands beyond opposites.
She doesn't move toward or away.
She sees things exactly as they are.
-Stephen Mitchell
The only difference between a Master and a non-Master
is that the Master embraces what is, totally.
-Eckhart Tolle
The Master's job couldn't be cushier.
All he does is be,
and he doesn't even do that.
There's nothing that is required of him.
He doesn't help, he doesn't lead, he doesn't set an example.
he just observes the marvelous transformations of mind.
-Stephen Mitchell
All he does is be,
and he doesn't even do that.
There's nothing that is required of him.
He doesn't help, he doesn't lead, he doesn't set an example.
he just observes the marvelous transformations of mind.
-Stephen Mitchell
True mastery can be gained
by letting things go their own way.
It can't be gained by interfering.
-Lao-tzu
The Master doesn't interfere.
He perfects the whole world in his heart.
-Stephen Mitchell
The master understands...
the observed depends on the observer.
That leaves her no place to stand.
From this no-place,
she can move the whole universe.
-Stephen Mitchell
Stand firm by the door of total mastery.
-Sun Bu'er
Be a master everywhere
and wherever you stand is your true place.
-Lin-Chi
The Master lives in the center of the universe,
which turned out to be the center of himself.
-Stephen Mitchell
The Master, who is at the centre like the sun,
must stay at the centre.
He gives his strength, his warmth, his light,
his blessings, his ideas,
but he does not shift his central place.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
He who becomes the master of himself
can become master over all that is related to himself.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
Once the mind is mastered
the person becomes a master of life.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
When we know the Self,
we becomes master of all that is.
-Ashokananda
To be a master means to be a master of living.
The greatest art is living well.
-Richard Rudd
The master in the art of living
draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play;
his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body;
his education and his recreation.
He hardly knows which is which.
He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing,
and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing.
To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
-L. P. Jacks
The mastery of life is in harmony,
the balance between doing and becoming.
Doing things activity and becoming inactively.
Achieving by doing and arriving by becoming.
If achieving is a human plan, arriving is the Way.
-Sang H. Kim
To me a true "master," in contrast to a "person of knowledge,"
is a teacher whose moment-to-moment existence is seamless
between the absolute and the relative
and who has mastered wholeness as well as unity.
-Phillip Moffitt
A Master is one who has resolved the essential problems of life.
He or she is free.
He or she possesses a strong will;
but, above all, a Master is filled with love, kindness and Light.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Self-mastery implies self-knowledge and self-sufficiency;
and nothing in the world is self-sufficient
except that self which is rooted in a condition of Love.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram
How cleanly the Master lives,
how close to the bone!
It's total transparency:
what you see is what you get.
-Stephen Mitchell
A Perfect Master experiences life
as an infinite and continuous flow of divine love,
swirling in, around and through
all forms of life and all realms of creation.
It is an experience of total unity with all life and all beings.
A Perfect Master personifies
perfect joy, perfect knowing, and perfect love
and expresses these qualities in every activity of life.
-Daniel Ladinsky
The particles emanating from a great Master
are alive, intense, luminous and potent.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Not until the voice has lost its power to wound,
not until the feet are bathed in the blood of the heart,
not until the eyes are incapable of tears,
will you be able to stand in the presence of the masters.
-Saying
You don't tell the quality of a master
by the size of his crowds.
-Richard Bach
by the size of his crowds.
-Richard Bach
What matters is not the Master,
but the Mastery, he "re-veals."
It is veiled in his person.
It has to be contacted through his person,
rather than in his person.
-Dane Rudhyar
but the Mastery, he "re-veals."
It is veiled in his person.
It has to be contacted through his person,
rather than in his person.
-Dane Rudhyar
The sign of a true master
is his being able to bolt out of sensuous consciousness
and to experience nirvikalpa samadhi at will.
-Yogananda
A sage performs actions
only with the view
to set an example to the masses.
-Sivananda
only with the view
to set an example to the masses.
-Sivananda
The spiritual master is to his community
as a prophet is to his nation.
-Abu Sa-id Ibn Abi-l-Khayr
as a prophet is to his nation.
-Abu Sa-id Ibn Abi-l-Khayr
Wherever there's mastery,
there's no mystery;
wherever there's mystery,
there's no mastery.
-Yogi Bhajan
there's no mystery;
wherever there's mystery,
there's no mastery.
-Yogi Bhajan
