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A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.

Sivananda

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
SIVANANDA

Future Moments Present
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.
SIVANANDA

Creation Drink Eat Planet Sleep Tears Wake Up Yourself
Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.
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Character Degree Man Need Wisdom
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.
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Book Greatness Heart Knowledge Reading Yourself
Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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Beginning Ourselves Sick
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
Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
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Love Meditation Peace Wisdom
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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Artificial Civilization Complication Harm Modern Oneself
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
The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
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Achievement Measurement Reality Spirituality Tranquility
Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.
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Butterfly Love Receive
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
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Character Form Law Right
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
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
Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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Body Change Inspirational Mindset
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
Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.
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Emotion Faith Religion Respect Tolerance Unity
Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
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Calm Greatness Humanity Pave Peace World
Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women.
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Expression Heart Medium Men Music Voice Woman
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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Act Heart Mindset Secret Success
The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
SIVANANDA

Demand Hard Struggle Success
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
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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God Manifestation Responsibility Treat
You are the Master of your own Destiny.
SIVANANDA

Destiny Master Yourself
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
A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.
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Energy Eyes Influence Person Smile Wisdom Yourself
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
SIVANANDA

Desire Greatness Impurity Poverty Spark

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