The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
SIVANANDATerrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
More Sivananda Quotes
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Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
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Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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You are the Master of your own Destiny.
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Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.
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Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don’t die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.
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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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Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
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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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You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don’t keep your word.
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Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
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When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.
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Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
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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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Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
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Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!
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The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.
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Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
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Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives – does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
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Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.
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Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
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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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The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
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