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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.

Sivananda

The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
SIVANANDA

Anand Thakur
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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Condition Discipline Factor Forever Fundamental
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.
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Born Ignorance Mindset Rise Temptation Yourself
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
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Act Divine End Shape Thinking Word
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
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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Creation Drink Eat Planet Sleep Tears Wake Up Yourself
Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
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Authentic Beautiful Essential Heart Spirituality
Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.
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Forever Freedom Lying Mindset
Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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Anand Thakur
The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.
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Benefit Silence
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
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Arrogance Harsh Nature Obedience Rude
Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.
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Action Horrible People Thinking Word Yourself
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.
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Destroy Development Evil Finding Future Goodness Man
Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it.
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Intuition Reason Transcendence
The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
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God Humanity Life Love Secret Service
Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.
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Conquer Thinking Willing World Yourself
Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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Beginning Ourselves Sick
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
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History Human Intellectual Noble Teaching World
Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
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Love Meditation Peace Wisdom
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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God Heart Himself Success
There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
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Aspect Different Opinion Truth View
Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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Capacity Life Soul
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
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Divine Freedom Goodness Life Mental Salvation
Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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Death Ignorance Knowledge Pain Sorrow
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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Bliss Drink Eat Immortal Laughter Sleep Wake Up
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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Beginning Bliss End Immortal Joy Meditation

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