Rama Quotes

• The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Names, Mind, Hinduism

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• Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Path, Hinduism

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• While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Helping Others, World

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• To achieve purity of mind, one should cultivate constant awareness by being mindful all the time. One should remain always aware of one's thoughts.

  Rama Swami

  Mind, Awareness, Purity

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• Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

  Rama Swami

  Art, Men, Meditation

  Swami Rama (1977). “Freedom from the Bondage of Karma”, p.73, Himalayan Institute Press

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• I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.
  And I know you do the same things too,
  So we're really not that different, me and you.

  Collin Raye

  Love, Girlfriend, Hurt

  Song: We're Really Not That Different, Album: I Think About You, 1995

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• It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Night

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• Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Yoga

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• You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Path, Students

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• I've moved a lot of my students into a high state of mind, but they don't do the things I have shown them how to do. So then, they drop down into a lower stage of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Attention

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• Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.

  Trish Stratus

  Brain, Together, Casinos

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• Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

  Erma Bombeck

  Girl, Humorous, Phones

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.64, Open Road Media

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• It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of our beloved deity like 'Om Namah Shivaya', 'Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya', 'Om Namo Narayanaya', 'Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare', 'Om Shivashaktyaikya Rupinyai Namaha' or even the names of Christ, Allah or Buddha.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Self, Names, Meditation

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• I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reading, School, Loving Friends

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• Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

  Barry Mann

  Rams, Unanswered Questions, Lama

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• I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, School, Deals

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• Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Kings, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1169, Manonmani Publishers

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• He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita. (part of A Hymn To Shri Ramakrishna)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Hymns, Three

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

  Maria Bethania

  Learning, Branches, Manners

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• Hey, maybe instead of going to college, you should drop out and I could quit my job and we can form an all-girl band with Lane, you know, like Bananarama. We could call it Tangerinarama or Banana-fana-fo-fana-rama...or something.

  Daniel Palladino

  Girl, Jobs, College

  "Fictional character: Lorelai Gilmore". "Gilmore Girls/ Application Anxiety", October 2002.

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• I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Realizing, Exceptional

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• I leaned from my friends in school. I had lots of friends; yet I was very indrawn.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Lots Of Friends, My Friends

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• In every home in America, in the world, there was cruelty, anger and hatred - things I didn't feel.

  Frederick Lenz

  Home, America, Hatred

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• Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love, and devotion. These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us Mr. Jiabao. Understand, now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India.

  Aravind Adiga

  Winning, Men, Faithful Servants

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

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