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It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Sivananda

Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
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Book Greatness Heart Knowledge Reading Yourself
Man is a bridge between the two worlds – the visible and the invisible.
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Bridge Invisible Man Visible World
Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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Beginning Ourselves Sick
Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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Fame Jealous Success
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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Awareness Consciousness Forever Meditation Purity Thinking
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
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Depression Failure Future Mistake Past Regret
Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.
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Expectation Fold Hands Learning Love Yourself
Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.
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Attachment Goodness Man Performance Reach
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Desire Give Up Happiness
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
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Capacity Himself Man Path Understand
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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Himself Intuition Knowledge Meditation Practice Regular Source
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
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Crave Follow Object Yourself
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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Alone Knowledge Man Student
Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.
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Conquer Thinking Willing World Yourself
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
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Arrogance Harsh Nature Obedience Rude
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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Children Forget Hate Heart Injury

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