Brihadaranyaka Upanishad quote: "As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires."

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JOHN BURROUGHS

I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eag...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping t...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
AMIT RAY

It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER

Rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to ...
MICHAEL WALSH

An eagle does not catch flies.
PROVERB

To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON

We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS...

It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.
CHLOE THURLOW

Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t...
SAINT BERNARD

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man ...
ANNIE BESANT

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them...
BIBLE

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING

The eagle does not catch flies
PROVERB

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and l...
CHARLES HODGE

A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long w...
LISA ST. AUBIN DE TERAN

The Eagle is the only bird that doesn't fly away from a Storm, it Spreads its Wings and Rises above ...
DEBRA ROBERTS

When the weaver bird flies, nobody talks; when the busy bee flies, no one will make comments... But ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS

Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER

Sheep used to have wings. One flew into the sky and all the others followed. They took their wings o...
RICHARD ADAMS

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of fl...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

One of its ears stuck straight up, the other flopped as it ran, and I remembered something I'd read ...
JENNIFER WEINER

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.
DOCTOR WHO

And sometimes, love is unconventional and it breaks all the rules and blurs all the lines and basks ...
MADELINE SHEEHAN

It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

They lit her wings with the flames, but she raised to the sky soaring over the clouds until the whol...
AKSHAY VASU

Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its c...
SIDNEY SHELDON

A bird must rely on its own wings if it is to conquer the sky.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then ...
C. JOYBELL C.

In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS...

The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of lib...
A.E. SAMAAN

There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It'...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opport...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.
LEE WESTWOOD

All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
THOMAS PAINE

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; ...
GEORGE CATLIN

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG

The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to k...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to k...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinct...
SIGMUND FREUD

The self who is undone in the encounter with the abyss, that is, the preabyssal self, lives with a m...
AN YOUNTAE

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

My main goal was to win all the belts, and I have done that.
LENNOX LEWIS

There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH

Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS

We are elated to continually receive the community's support. Fundraising events such as this allow ...
CHAR QUINN

Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.
LYNDA HERNANDEZ

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
KEANU REEVES

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their...
EILEEN CADDY

If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
J. PETIT-SENN

You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat...
TIFFANY GARLAND

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I have never been contained except I made the prison.
MARY EVANS

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal ins...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Easing back in her seat, Grace watched the children in the playground opposite, coats off, faces flu...
KATHLEEN TESSARO

When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af...
MICHAEL STEIN

Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in...
CHIEF BLACK ELK

Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
ADI ALSAID

You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before a...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver cur...
RORY MACLEAN

To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a s...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE

Spreading its wings, her love stretched out and touching his tangled, frozen soul and from the first...
VIRGINIA ALISON

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects...
JEANETTE WINTERSON

Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ...
JAMES THURBER

Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from th...
STEPHEN KING

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ...
JOHN BURROUGHS

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE

When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE

In the night, your loneliness crushes you, as if the sky itself has swooped down to smother you in i...
SABAA TAHIR

I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET

There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO

How do the birds make great sky circles... They fall and falling they are given wings.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI

The body needs its rest, and sleep is extremely important in any health regimen. There should be thr...
ROHIT SHETTY

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are...
HANNAH WHITALL SMITH

Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY

Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE

And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all ...
BRUCE CATTON

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evi...
THOMAS PAINE

As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.

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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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