Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Anagarika Govinda

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Tibetan painter Anagarika Govinda.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Anagarika Govinda

Anagarika Govinda was the founder of the order of the Arya Maitreya Mandala and an expositor of Tibetan Buddhism, Abhidharma, and Buddhist meditation as well as other aspects of Buddhism. He was also a painter and poet.

The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul.
To the enlightened man... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the manifestation of the universal mind. His inner vision an expression of the highest reality, and his speech an expression of eternal truth and mantric power.
Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life. — © Anagarika Govinda
Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.
To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.
The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind
Do not keep what you have selfishly bottled up; pour it out, share it with the world.
The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened mind, which manifests itself on the plane of timeless meditative vision.
Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences
The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates. As soon as we are successful in silencing the restless activity of the thinking mind and give a chance to intuition, the pure all embracing spirit in us will manifest effortlessly.
The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality, but is capable of creating a new reality by transforming the inner as well as the outer world
Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.
The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.
The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.
The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.
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