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.
SIVANANDACrave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
More Sivananda Quotes
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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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Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
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Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women.
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There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
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Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.
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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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Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
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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.
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Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.
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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
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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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