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Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Sivananda

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
The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
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Battle Mindset Past Residue
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
The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
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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
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
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
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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Complete Mental Peace Wave
When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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God Heart Himself Success
Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.
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Meditation Purity Realize Serve
Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.
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Butterfly Love Receive
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
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
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Coward Humility Power Spirituality
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
There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.
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Development Emotion Feeling Hands Intellectual Known Man Willing
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

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

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Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

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