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.
SIVANANDADo 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.
More Sivananda Quotes
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The practice of ‘asanas’ and ‘pranayama’ wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
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To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.
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Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
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Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
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Change the mind, and you can change the body.
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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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Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives – does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
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Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.
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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.
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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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Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
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If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
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