Shipra Dutta

“Sometimes I worry you'll all realise I'm ordinary," said the boy.
"Love doesn't need you to be extraordinary." said the mole.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“What is that over there?", asked the boy.
"It's the wild", said the mole; "Don't fear it"

"Imagine how we'd be, if we were less afraid...??”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse / The Art of Happiness

“I'm so small,” said the mole. “Yes,” said the boy, “but you make a huge difference.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Thoughtless is the man who buries his ideals, surrendering to the common fate. Can he seem other than impotent, wooden, ignominious?

The body is literally manufactured and sustained by mind. Through pressure of instincts from past lives, strengths or weaknesses percolate gradually into human consciousness. They express as habits, which in turn ossify into a desirable or an undesirable body. Outward frailty has mental origin.

As all things can be reflected in water, so the whole universe is mirrored in the lake of the cosmic mind.

The dual scales of maya ( delusion ) that balance every joy with a grief!

Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.

Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.

Be comfortable within your purse. Extravagance will buy you discomfort.

The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until anchored in the Divine. everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!

Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.

The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the world's treasury of knowledge.

Fixity of attention depends on slow breathing; quick or uneven breaths are an inevitable accompaniment of harmful emotional states: fear, lust, anger.

Imposters and hypocrites, there are indeed, but India respects all for the sake of the few who illumine the whole land with supernal blessings.”
― Yogananda Paramhansa, Autobiography of a Yogi