Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATIAs 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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In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
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The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action.
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Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.
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What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
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At this moment, our instincts are very impure. When we have practiced for a long time, living the higher values of life and following the instructions of great masters or the Scriptures.
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The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
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A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly.
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Look after the present and the future will look after itself.
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The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.
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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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If you want to prove yourself to God, improve yourself. Words of guidance are so simple, yet so deep – anybody can win, if he be the soul entry. Unfortunately, in every field.
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Expose yourself to aloneness.
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The Present is the womb of the future.
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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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The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything
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