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.
SIVANANDADo 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.
More Sivananda Quotes
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The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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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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Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
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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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Life is a series of awakenings.
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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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Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.
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Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.
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Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
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Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.
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Don’t fear the darkness if you carry the light within.
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