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The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.

Sivananda

The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.
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Ability Inheritance Mental Mystery Shut Teaching Thinking
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
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
This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.
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Body Greatness School Silence Teacher World
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
Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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Anand Thakur
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Desire Give Up Happiness
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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God Heart Himself Success
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp god.
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Blade Humble Joy Pain Taste
You are the Master of your own Destiny.
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Destiny Master Yourself
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
God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.
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Forever God Satisfaction
Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.
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Forever Freedom Lying Mindset
Conquer your thoughts and you will conquer the world.
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Conquer Thinking Willing World Yourself
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.
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Brain Divine Learning Mindset Thinking

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