Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
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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.
SivanandaSivananda 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.
SivanandaSivananda Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
SivanandaSivananda 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.
SivanandaSivananda 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.
SivanandaSivananda Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.
SivanandaSivananda Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
SivanandaSivananda Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
SivanandaSivananda Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
SivanandaSivananda Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
SivanandaSivananda Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
SivanandaSivananda 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.
SivanandaSivananda Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
SivanandaSivananda Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
SivanandaSivananda The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.
SivanandaSivananda Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
OvidOvid I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.
Prince PhilipPrince Philip Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
Prince PhilipPrince Philip Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
AristotleAristotle The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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