Top 100 Acharya Prashant Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “What is depression? Only He is High. The one whose mind is not in contact with That alone, whose life is not centered around that High peak, will always find himself down. This is depression: an outcome of the ego’s refusal to surrender to the High. Depression means that the Highest is unknown to you.”

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52. “If you can exploit others, you will exploit yourself.”

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53. “The quality of this moment decides the quality of life. If this is life, then the worthiness of this moment is the worthiness of life.”

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54. “Life: Just desires manifested.”

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55. “Let God be the baby in your arms.”

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56. “The only thing real about this unreal life is that its an opportunity to move into the Real. If that opportunity is wasted, life is wasted.”

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57. “What is joy? The celebration of mind on being free from itself.”

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58. “Find out all your reasons in life. See whether they’re big or small. Whether yours or borrowed. Then get rid of them all. Live unreasonably.”

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59. “Instead of asking where did it all go wrong, simply set it right.”

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60. “There is no ‘my life’ or ‘your life’. There is just Life, total. ‘My life’ is ego, separation and ends in death. Life is oneness and immortal.”

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61. “When man refuses to live in the essence, he lives in the periphery, in the inessential. See how you have filled your life with the inessentials. See how you suffer. See how you long for the Essential.”

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62. “I may think or not think, I AM!”

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63. “Nothing ever dies. It just shifts to another mode of life. Death is a lie. There IS only life. Every grain of sand is as alive as I am.”

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64. “Life is the sacred silence of a raucous laughter, or a raucous laughter of the sacred silence. A holy verse, a vulgar joke. Live. Both. Fully.”

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65. “Your efforts to control the flow of life are sure to fail, for you have defined yourself to be small and separate. Why not just re-define?”

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66. “For life to be timeless, you will have to live in the changeless.”

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67. “Mind and body crave to express their already Perfect Source. And that is the purpose of life: Just expression, not achievement. Live the Self.”

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68. “Meetings, events are by chance. But the motive is not by chance. The events are sporadic, episodic! But the motive is a continuity, a permanent presence.”

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69. “A great change happens when you see what is happening. To not to see what is happening is to continue the happening. Just pause and look at what you’ve been doing. Freedom from fear comes from realising that the entire story is fear, that the whole substance of your life is steeped in fear.”

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70. “Live fully, die fully, and then come alive, again, and again….”

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71. “Enlightenment is to feel free of the obligation to be enlightened.”

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72. “The hope of an answer sustains the question. The sustenance of questions appears to make life purposeful, but is actually a trap. No answers.”

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73. “Awareness is a part of life, meditation is a part of routine, love is a part of relationships. Sure, just as waking up is a part of the dream.”

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74. “To want fulfillment is to be unfulfilled. Fulfillment is an infinite cup, from which you can drink as much as you want to. Then one sip more...”

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75. “Our faces look like they are produced in an assembly line. All look exactly the same. There is no depth in them. All appear very shallow and very alike. Real beauty lies in a face that has fought battles. A face which is raw. A face that has scars of life. A beauty that is untouched by all the battles and all the scars.”

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76. “Every meaningful work that I do is based on my concepts, and hence on my ego. Let me dance a meaningless dance and live a meaningless life.”

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77. “To say something, speak. To say a lot of things, speak eloquently. To say everything, be in silence.”

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78. “Anger cannot be right in isolation. If everything else about you is wrong and petty, then anger too is bound to be wrong and petty. Do not be too bothered with the problem of anger. Do not try to look at the one fragment of mind and quarantine it. Whatever is the quality of your life, that is also the quality of your anger. When life is genuine, then anger is also genuine. When life is fake, then all you have is fake anger. When life has depth, then anger too has depth. When life is shallow, then anger is mere poking and pinching.”

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79. “Love gives, and demands no returns.”

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80. “The mind thinks about thoughtlessness, desires desirelessness and hopes to live in the present moment. It even plans a free-flowing life.”

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81. “I think of life in terms of a time-duration. But time itself makes my definition of life insubstantial. Time means death. Life can’t be time.”

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82. “Life lives itself. Till I claim ownership over it. And then, I live and life is gone.”

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83. “Life is sacred when you can see the True in the false.”

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84. “Too many life-experts claim expertise on the base that they have never really lived! There is no way to know life than by being in it fully.”

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85. “Life can be transcended only by living. Living is transcending. Forget transcending, just live!”

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86. “Desire is fear. A life of desires is a life of fear. Impossible for the go-getter to be fearless. Achievement is insecurity trying to smile.”

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87. “Honesty is not a policy. Honesty is your uncorrupted way of living. Where there is a direct beautiful movement from the Self to the mind, from the mind to the thoughts, and from thoughts to action, that is honesty.”

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88. “Witnessing isn’t detachment, rather it is immersion in life. When the subject immerses in its object, subject and object merge into nothing.”

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89. “Life: Rest, not quest.”

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90. “I resist life, fight, and want to win. Stop resisting, just accept defeat, and step down. Relax. Life will embrace you and act on your behalf.”

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91. “I run around desperately to improve my life. And what is this ‘life’ that I want to improve? Difficult to know that while running around!”

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92. “Small is big. Big is imaginary. Now is forever. Forever is never. In daily events, life is lost and won. Grand moments, well, there’re none.”

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93. “Aatman is the essence. World is the skin of the aatman. Look at your life and find out how much do you value the essence, and how much do you value the skin.”

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94. “All movement in nature, including the movement of life, moves to stop. It wants to reach, get a climax, which will be the end of movement.”

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95. “Life is dear. But we call life as life only because death is there. And death is a scare. Is it any wonder our life is a nightmare!”

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96. “If life does not allow you to come, then die and come. If life makes way for you to come, then come and die. Come you must. Die you must.”

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97. “Life is the sacred silence of a raucous laughter or a raucous laughter of the sacred silence. A holy verse. A vulgar joke. Live both. Fully.”

— Acharya Prashant

98. “I am not spiritual. I am a destroyer of all spirituality. I am the spirit.”

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99. “Why exists time? To search for its source. Why exists life? To search for its source. Why continues mind? As it has not found the source.”

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100. “Those who do not have God, do not even miss God.”

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