Learning from Nature

A devotee took a tiny Banyan seed and said to Mother, “Look Mother, it is tinier even than the tiniest seed we know. From this will spring a Giant tree! How Strange!”. “ Indeed , it will ,” Mother replied. “ See what a tiny seed is the Name of God. From it in time come divine moods , devotion , love and spiritual consummation.”

- Sri Sarada Devi , The Holy Mother

Learning from Nature

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.”

- Chanakya

Prime Minister to Maurya Emperor Chandragupta

Learning from Nature

The clay tells the potter : why dost thou knead me so.The day will come when I will knead you like the dough.

- Kabir
Mystical Poet

Learning from Nature

By pleasing the One(God) you please so many, by pleasing many none at all. If you care to tend the roots, fruits and flowers will come unasked.

- Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana, Poet

Learning from Nature

Says Rahim, How will evil corrupt, he who has an excellent character? After all does the sandalwood become poisonous by having snakes lie around its trunk.

- Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana, Poet