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I Do Not Compete With Anybody Else; I Compete Only With Myself. You Saw My Capacity A Few Minutes Ago. Now I Am Competing With Myself. When I Do Weightlifting, My Body Is My World. If I Can Improve Myself, If I Can Go Beyond My Previous Achievements, Then That Is My Goal. My Own Previous Record Is Always What I Am Competing With.
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I Do Not Compete

Sri Chinmoy
I Do Not Compete With Anybody Else; I Compete Only With Myself. You Saw My Capacity A Few Minutes Ago. Now I Am Competing With Myself. When I Do Weightlifting, My Body Is My World. If I Can Improve Myself, If I Can Go Beyond My Previous Achievements, Then That Is My Goal. My Own Previous Record Is Always What I Am Competing With.
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The Hope Or Climbing Aspiration Of A Divine Child Is To Receive And Achieve Peace, Light And Bliss In Infinite Measure.
Children
Light
Climbing
Peace Is Something Tangible. It Silences The Outgoing Energy Of The Mind And Feeds The Aspiring Heart. Peace Is Not Merely The Absence Of Quarreling And Fighting. True Peace Is Not Affected By The Roaring Of The World, Outer Or Inner. This Sea Of Peace Is At Our Command If We Practise The Spiritual Life.
Spiritual
Heart
Fighting
Love Your Enemy. It Will Not Only Puzzle Him, But Finally Illumine Him.
Enemy
Love Your Enemies
Puzzles
Lf You Ever Dare To Fight Against Hatred, Then There Is But One Weapon: Love.
Fighting
Hatred
Weapons
This World Of Ours Has Everything Except One Thing: Peace. Everybody Wants And Needs Peace, Whether He Be A Child Or An Octogenarian.
Peace
Children
Needs
Love And Liveand Live And Loveeach Momentto The Fullest.
The Atom Has Taught Me That The Little Things Do Count - Most.
Atoms
Littles
Taught
The Whole World Is Looking For Miracles. Every Day It Is Dying To See Miracles. But Can There Be Any Miracle More Challenging, More Illumining And More Fulfilling Than To See And Feel The Infinite Beauty Of My Beloved Supreme Inside This Tinier Than The Tiniest Gratitude-heart Of Mine?
Gratitude
Heart
Infinite Beauty
When We Meditate We Expand, Spreading Our Wings Like A Bird, Trying To Enter Consciously Into Infinity, Eternity And Immortality, Welcoming Them Into Our Aspiring Consciousness. We See, Feel And Grow Into The Entire Universe Of Light-delight.
Light
Wings
Meditation
There Is Only One Perfect Road And That Road Is Ahead Of You, Always Ahead Of You.
Perfect
Run And Become. Become And Run. Run To Succeed In The Outer World. Become To Proceed In The Inner World.
Sports
Running
World
Our Soul Lives In Peace And Lives For Peace. If We Live A Life Of Peace, We Are Ever Enriched And Never Impoverished. Unhorizoned Is Our Inner Peace; Like The Boundless Sky, It Encompasses All.
Peace
Sky
Soul
Life Is Nothing But The Expansion Of Love. We Can Cultivate Divine Love By Entering Into The Source. The Source Is God, Who Is All Love.
Life
Expansion
Entering
Allow Everything Else To Vanish Save And Except Your Cherished Dreams, For Your Cherished Dreams Are Treasured Sleeplessly By God Himself.
Dream
Treasured
World Peace Can Blossom Throughout The Length And Breadth Of The World Only When The World-peace-dreamers, World-peace-lovers And World-peace-servers Desperately, Sleeplessly And Breathlessly Long For The Full Manifestation Of Peace Here On Earth.
Peace
Long
Dreamer
Fear Is Bound To Disappear When You Realize That Failure Is Not Something Shameful, Damaging, Destructive, Or Painful, But Something Natural.
Realizing
Painful
Natural
Outer Fire We Need To Cook. Inner Fire We Need To Liberate. God's Fire We Need To Love.
God
Fire
Needs
Our Goal Is Not To Have A Problem-free Life. But To Conquer All The Problems As They Appear Along Our Life-road.
Encouragement
Goal
Problem
There Comes A Time In The Seeker's Life When He Discovers That He Is At Once The Lover And The Beloved.
Alaska
Lovers
Beloved
I Love My Enemies For Two Reasons: They Inspire Me To Recognise My Weakness. They Also Inspire Me To Perfect My Imperfect Nature.
Two
Perfect
Inspire
A Single God - Touch From God's Compassion - Height Can Transform Man's Unimaginable And Countless Weaknesses Into God's Own Infinite,immortal And Omnipotent Power.
Men
Compassion
Weakness
I Never Fight With Reason- I Just Ignore It.
Fighting
Reason
Complete And Total Perfection Will Come About Only When We Feel That Our Perfection Is No Perfections As Long As The Rest Of Humanity Remains Imperfect.
Sri Lanka
Long
Perfection
God Does Not Care If I Am Bad Or Good- He Wants My Love, Not My Sainthood.
Care
Want
Doe
And In Self-giving We Become Really Happy. Real Humility Is The Expansion Of Our Consciousness And Our Service.
Real
Humility
Self
Man's Eternal Question Is:'who Is God?'god's Immediate Answer Is:'my Child, Who Else Is God, If Not You?
Children
Men
Answers
Beyond Speech And Mind, Into The River Of Ever-effulgent Light My Heart Dives. Today Thousands Of Doors, Closed For Millennia, Are Opened Wide.
Heart
Light
Doors
When You Meditate You Have To Try To Quiet And Calm The Mind. There Should Be No Thought Within The Mind. Right Now You Feel That If You Can Cherish Twenty Ideas At A Time, Then You Are The Wisest Man On Earth. The More Thoughts That Enter Into Our Minds, The More Clever We Feel We Are. But In The Spiritual Life It Is Not Like That. If Consciously We Can Make The Mind Calm And Quiet, We Feel That A New Creation Dawns Inside Us.
Spiritual
Clever
Men
Do Not Try To Entrap Others With Your Haughty Knowledge. To Your Wide Surprise, They Will Entrap You With Their Lengthy Ignorance.
Ignorance
Knowledge
Trying
When You Really Have Something To Offer To The World, Then You Can Become Truly Humble. A Tree When It Has No Fruit To Offer, Remains Erect. But When The Tree Is Laden With Fruit, It Bends Down. If You Are All Pride And Ego, Then Nobody Will Be Able To Get Anything Worthwhile From You. When You Have Genuine Humility, It Is A Sign That You Have Something To Offer To Mankind.
Humility
Humble
Pride
Peace Begins When Expectation Ends.
Expectations
Ends
When We Listen To The Inner Voice, Our Outer Life Becomes Full Of Peace.
Peace
Voice
Inner Voice
To Hope Is To Send Darkest Night Into Exile.
Night
Hopeful
Exile
What Gives Life Its Value If Not Its Constant Cry For Self-transcendence?
Self
Giving
Cry
Hope Pulls The Heart Of Tomorrow Into The Body Of Today.
Heart
Body
Today
A Spiritually Established Life Is Not An Easy Task. But A Materially Satisfied Life Is An Impossible Task.
Tasks
Impossible
Life Is
Your Soul Has A Special Mission. Your Soul Is Supremely Conscious Of It. Maya, Illusion Or Forgetfulness, Makes You Feel That You Are Finite, Weak And Helpless. This Is Not True. You Are Not The Body. You Are Not The Senses. You Are Not The Mind. These Are All Limited. You Are The Soul, Which Is Unlimited. Your Soul Is Infinitely Powerful. Your Soul Defies All Time And Space.
Powerful
Space
Soul
Individual Self-transcendence Collectively Inspires Humanity At Large.
Self
Inspire
Humanity
Patience, Increasing Patience
Patience
Today I Must Dive Deep Within And Know What I Come To This Earth-stage For.
Destiny
Earth
Today
Peace Is A Stranger To The Rigid Mind. Peace Is A Guest Of The Flexible Heart.
Heart
Mind
Guests
Just One Smile Immensely Increases The Beauty Of The Universe.
Meditation
Increase
Just One
Human Love Wants To Possess And Be Possessed By The World. Divine Love Wants To Establish Its Inseparable Oneness With The World And Then It Wants To Divinely Enjoy This Oneness. Supreme Love Transforms Human Love Into Divine Love And Blesses Divine Love With Boundless Joy And Divine Pride.
Love
Pride
Oneness
Our Mind Thinks Of Death. Our Heart Thinks Of Life. Our Soul Thinks Of Immortality.
Healing
Heart
Thinking
When I Think Good Thoughts, I Feel That Man Is Not, After All, So Bad.
Men
Thinking
Good Thoughts
A Moment's Truth Can And Shall Make The World Beautiful. A Moment's Peace Can And Shall Save The World. A Moment's Love Can And Shall Make The World Perfect.
Beautiful
Perfect
World
Do Not Try To Approach God With Your Thinking Mind. It May Only Stimulate Your Intellectual Ideas, Activities, And Beliefs. Try To Approach God With Your Crying Heart. It Will Awaken Your Soulful, Spiritual Consciousness.
Spiritual
Heart
Thinking
Each Child Born On Earth Is A Unique Promise Of God To God Himself.
Children
Unique
Promise
Sympathy Has To Be The First And Foremost Thing In One's Life, Sympathy And The Feeling Of Oneness. There Cannot Be Anything Greater Than The Feeling Of Oneness .
Sympathy
Oneness
Feelings
Those Who Run After Happiness Will Never Be Happy. Happiness Is Something That Has To Come To The Fore From Within.
Running
Let Us Not Worry About The Future. Let Us Only Do The Right Thing Today, At This Moment, Here And Now. Let The Future Take Care Of Itself.
Worry
Care
Today
I Took A Closer Look. There Is No Such Thing As Ignorance. Ignorance Is Nothing But My Limited Knowledge. I Took A Closer Look. There Is No Such Thing As Defeat. Defeat Is Nothing But The Inspirer Of My Increasing Will. I Took A Closer Look. There Is No Such Thing As Death. Death Is Nothing But My Strengthening And Dreaming Rest.
Death
Dream
Ignorance
Let Us Not Try To Understand Music With Our Mind. Let Us Not Even Try To Feel It With Our Heart. Let Us Simply And Spontaneously Allow The Music-bird To Fly In Our Heart-sky. While Flying, It Will Unconditionally Reveal To Us What It Has And What It Is. What It Has, Is Immortality's Message. What It Is, Is Eternity's Passage.
Heart
Sky
Bird
In This World, Man Has Two Significant Possessions: Intelligence And Emotion. These Two Possessions Govern Our Day-to-day Life. But Very Often We See That Emotion (ego) Gets The Upper Hand In Our Life. We Know That Even If Someone Is Extremely Intelligent, When His Emotion Comes To The Fore It Will Devour Him. He Is Compelled To Do What His Emotion Asks Him To Do.
Men
Intelligent
Two
To Free Our Body From Fear What We Need Is The Glorious Experience Of The Soul.
Soul
Needs
Body
Meditation Tells You Only One Thing: God Is. Meditation Reveals To You Only One Truth: Yours Is The Vision Of God.
Meditation
Vision
One Thing
Ignorance Is An Enemy, Even To Its Owner. Knowledge Is A Friend, Even To Its Hater. Ignorance Hates Knowledge Because It Is Too Pure. Knowledge Fears Ignorance Because It Is Too Sure.
Hate
Ignorance
Enemy
Everybody Has God Inside, But Not Everybody Is Able To See God Within. One Can See God Only When One Cries For Him. Those Who Cry For God And Pray To God Can Realise God.
God
Able
Praying
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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