The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIHappiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
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When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality – about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.
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The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything
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The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow’s harvest depends upon today’s ploughing and sowing.
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Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
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Both renunciation of action and the performance of action lead to Nirvana (Liberation); but these performance of action is superior to renunciation of action.
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Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket
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Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive.
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Expose yourself to aloneness.
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That is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice.
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Silently hear everyone.
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There are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.
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As the thoughts so the mind. If thoughts are good, mind is good. If thoughts are bad, the mind is called bad.
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He who submits to discipline is a DISCIPLE.
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Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
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The Present is the womb of the future.
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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
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As agitations quieten, sattva increases slowly.
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Your nobility must estimate how much of you Was put into each hour of your daily work
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But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.
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Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts.
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In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
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Taste goodness before you recommend it.
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The action of today becomes the destiny of tomorrow.
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Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.
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Remember, ‘Even this will pass away.’
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Without sattva you can never reach the Supreme. Wherever you are, in whatever station, from there you have to reach sattva in varying degrees because tamas will be reduced only when the mind’s agitations, vikshepas are quietened.
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