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| Ramayana |
| Strange things inspire fear. Where there is knowledge, there is light. Darkness implies the unknown. A person gains confidence on hearing about familiar things. Even strange things are more acceptable if presented along with the known. |
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| Mahabharata |
| Never feel afraid, for fear saps determination. |
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| Upanishads |
| The sword lies unassuming in its sheath. So does the spirit slumber in the mind. |
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| Hinduism |
| The potter sees God in clay. |
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| Universal Prayers - From Vedas |
| Obeisance to Thee, O lord of the universe. Thou art the soul and the maker of the universe. Thou art the universal enjoyer. Thou again art the universal life. Thou verily art the author of this sport of the universe. |
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| Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram |
| Salutations to Him who is the Highest Good that confers merit and whose remembrance destroys evil. |
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| Sri Lalita Sahasranama |
Om vaktra - laksmi - parivaha - calan - minabha - locanayai namah.
Salutations to Her whose eyes move like fish in the streams of beauty flowing from Her face. |
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| Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya |
| Dull-witted man, wandering about for flowers (for Thy worship_, goes to deep lotus lakes, to uninhabited dense forests and to high mountains. Lo! he does not know how to be happy in life by offering unto Thee, the Lord of uma, the unique lotus of his own heart. |
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| Siva Sahasranama Stotram |
| Manifestation. Om pravrtaye namah |
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| Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry) |
| Lord, we are upon earth to accomplish Thy work of transformation. It is our sole will, our sole preoccupation. |
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