1. "It is by the wonder of the five-syllabled mantra that the worlds, the Vedas, the rishis, the dharma, the universe and the devas exist. AUM Namah Sivayah is the seed of all the living."
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Ramesh Menon, SIVA PURANA
2. "The [original] scriptures of the Hindus are called the Vedas."
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Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
3. "Freebird, the mantra of the moron."
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Quote by Bill Hicks
4. "Our words have not the power of the words that become Vedas."
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Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
5. "Jony, too, would become a master of the approach, agreeing with Jobs’s mantra: ‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
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Leander Kahney, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
6. "You may ask, Who wrote the Vedas? They were not written. The words are the Vedas. A word is Veda, if I can pronounce it rightly. Then it will immediately produce the [desired] effect."
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Swami Vivekananda, Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
7. "Mantra is a spiritual guide which dispels the fear of death and leads one fearlessly to the other shore of life."
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Swami Rama, Living with the Himalayan Masters
8. "For a period of time after this discovery, Gandhi walked many miles each day, repeating the mantra to himself until it began to coordinate itself with the movement of his body and breath. The practice not only calmed him, but brought him into periods of bliss and rapture—and, as he said, opened the doorway to God. Rama, Rama, Rama. Eventually, the mantra developed a life of its own within him. The mantra began to chant itself, arising spontaneously whenever he needed it."
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Stephen Cope, The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
9. "Snyder had scaled the rocky heights of the American political landscape by adhering to a simple mantra: Do unto others before they do unto you."
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Brad Thor, The Lions of Lucerne
10. "The more I heard it in my thoughts, the more sense it made. And beyond sense, it became a kind of seductive mantra."
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Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter