Quotes on Virtue and Virtuous conduct

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You must abstain from thinking about some one when you cannot think well of him. ~ Mira alfassa


Never grumble. All sorts of forces enter you when you grumble and they pull you down. ~ Mira alfassa


If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own. ~ Sarada Devi


Best way to practice witness state is not to criticize anyone, not to criticize. I've seen people who are all the time criticizing others. They cannot criticize themselves, so they start criticizing other. ~ Nirmala Devi

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“In each moment you must decide which is your master – the Truth or the ego.” ~ Maharishikaa Preeti


You have at the center of your system this truth impulse. And you also have to deal with the great ego noise, the ego lie. ~ Maharishikaa Preeti


And so every urge to action that arises from your system, its being like a scientist, you are trying to find out where is this urge to action arising from.

Is it arising from the ego noise, the ego lie !

Or is it arising from the Truth impulse, the soul impulse ? ~ Maharishikaa Preeti


Everyone needs to know that they have a guru, and that this guru is the Source of all the answers they need, to navigate this process of living. They need to know that this guru is the AntarAatman or Soul or Source that resides within them, and they need to know how to listen to the answers from Source. ~ Maharishikaa Preeti

[ajay00]

Before knowing the truth if you depend on your intelligence you can be misled completely.

Intelligence that is without the spiritual insight is your own ego, is not pure intelligence, it is just your ego, which says, “This is right”, “I say”, “I believe”, “I am like this” – that is ego. After realization the truth that comes to you is the real pure truth and is not your ego. ~ Nirmala Devi


A person is wise who does not only know what is right and wrong, but also he knows very well his own power not to do something wrong. He just does not do it.

Wisdom is a complete power within ourselves by which we try nothing. It just spontaneously works through us and we do things which are proper and right.~ Nirmala Devi


Wisdom you don’t get in colleges, schools,universities, nowhere. Where do you get it, the wisdom? You get it through your spirit, which gives you a complete idea as to what is right and what is wrong. ~ Nirmala Devi

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"The inner voice speaks unto him who has annihilated his ego or false personality." ~ Swami Sivananda


Never mistake the lower mind’s promptings for the voice of the soul”. ~ Swami Sivananda


“The pure conscience itself is the “Inner Voice”. But the difficulty in the ordinary man is that the voice of the lower mind, the voice of the brutal instincts, is often misunderstood as the voice of conscience. As a result of such misunderstanding, guided by his animal tendencies, he commits colossal blunders, involving danger to others. ~ Swami Sivananda


It requires a great degree of purity and calmness of mind to hearken the true Inner Voice.” ~ Swami Sivananda

[ajay00]

Our intuition or wisdom has all the answers we need. So we just need to listen to it. But often we discriminate things based on beliefs created by society, people’s opinions or acquired information. ~ Brahmakumaris


Our innate wisdom which we call the inner voice or intuition always knows what is right for us. It constantly guides us in the right direction, and all we need to do is to learn to listen to it. ~ Brahmakumaris


Let us spend a few minutes with ourselves on a daily basis. Meditation and spiritual study silences our noisy minds and activate our intuition. You have all the answers within, tap into that wisdom to make every choice and decision. ~ Brahmakumaris


When you listen more to your intuition, you will also master the art of silencing your mind, thereby controlling your thoughts better. ~ Brahmakumaris

[ajay00]

The Guru within you is Satchidananda. It directs you continuously. It advises you. Sometimes you listen. Sometimes you don’t and then you get burnt and cry. It will say, “Please next time be careful.” ~ Swami Satchidananda


We call that the antar Atma, the inner Self which constantly guides you. It is your conscience. “Be true to your Self,” we say. That is the Self. Listen to that Self. ` ~ Swami Satchidananda


Don’t allow the monkey mind or the ego within to guide you; it will drag you into the ditch.~ Swami Satchidananda


When you completely give up your ego, you hear the voice within. You hear the Guru within. Then it becomes very easy to face the life, to win the battle. ~ Swami Satchidananda

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Everyday life must be guided by discrimination and inspired by the highest intuitions. ~ Meher Baba


The intuition is not an emotion or psychic thing; it's not imagination; in some sense it's developing a higher contact with Reality than that which reason gives us. ~ Meher Baba


https://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/intu.html

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Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt. ~ Carl Jung


The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice. ~ Darren Johnson


“When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. That’s the one worth listening to. ~ Miranda Linda Weisz*

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Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice. ~ Shunryu Suzuki


When we listen to the Inner Voice, our outer life becomes full of peace. ~ Sri Chinmoy


Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts. At this moment, our instincts are very impure. When we have practiced for a long time, living the higher values of life and following the instructions of great masters or the Scriptures, that is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice.
~ Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati