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Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.

Sivananda

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
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Alone Crave End Happiness Satisfaction
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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Character Degree Man Need Wisdom
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
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Education Enjoyment Experience Life Secret
The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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Benefit Silence
Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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Meditation Purity Realize Serve
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
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Desire Greatness Impurity Poverty Spark
Man is a bridge between the two worlds – the visible and the invisible.
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Bridge Invisible Man Visible World
Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.
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Brain Divine Learning Mindset Thinking
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
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Body Greatness School Silence Teacher World
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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Blade Humble Joy Pain Taste
The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
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Experience Mindset Present Product Thinking
The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
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Anand Thakur
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.
SIVANANDA

Development Emotion Feeling Hands Intellectual Known Man Willing
Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.
SIVANANDA

God Leaving Patience Practice Regular
Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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Fame Jealous Success
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
SIVANANDA

Act Divine End Shape Thinking Word

Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.

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