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.
Mahabharata
What glory can you win by defeating the weak?
Upanishads
Rarer still is the man who can face the truth with courage.
Hinduism
The drummer's hand smites sound from the drum. But the drum thinks, " I make music."
Universal Prayers - From Vedas
They speak of an eternal Asvattha- the ever-changing tree of phenomenal existence - rooted above, and branching below. He who knows it is a man of knowledge.
Sri Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram
Salutations to Him who is the Greatest.
Sri Lalita Sahasranama
Om maha - pasupat astr agni - nirdagdh asura - sainikayai namah. Salutations to Her who burned to death the armies of demons with the fire of the great missile pasupata.
Sivananda Lahari - Of Sri Sankaracarya
O Lord of creatures! Art Thou not the Almighty as also the greatest friend of the miserable, of whom I am the chief? Is there not, then a close kinship between us two? Therefore, O Thou bestower of good, Thou shouldst forgive me all my transgressions and work for mysalvation even if it be fraught with difficulty. For this is the test of close relationship everywhere.
Siva Sahasranama Stotram
The Great Strength. Om mahabalaya namah.
Quotations from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry)
Nothing can be done except through the force of the Mother.
