Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
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More Sivananda Quotes
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Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact with the source of his/her very being.
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Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
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You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.
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Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
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Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
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It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
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Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
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This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
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Man is a bridge between the two worlds – the visible and the invisible.
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Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
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The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
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To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.
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Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp god.
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Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.
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Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
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