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There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Sivananda

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
SIVANANDA

Children Forget Hate Heart Injury
Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.
SIVANANDA

Calm Greatness Humanity Pave Peace World
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.
SIVANANDA

Ability Inheritance Mental Mystery Shut Teaching Thinking
Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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Beginning Ourselves Sick
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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Destroy Development Evil Finding Future Goodness Man
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
SIVANANDA

Alone Crave End Happiness Satisfaction
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
A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.
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Mindset Purity Subject Transcendence Understand
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
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
An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
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Practice Theory Worth
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
Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
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Future Moments Present
Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.
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Brain Divine Learning Mindset Thinking
Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
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Forget Future Hope Live Past Present
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
SIVANANDA

Crave Follow Object Yourself

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

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