There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
SIVANANDAThe goal of life is god realisation.
More Sivananda Quotes
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The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
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Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
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A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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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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Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
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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.
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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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The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.
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An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
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When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.
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There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.
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Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.
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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.
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Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.
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Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path.
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The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
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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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Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.
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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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