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Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.

Sri Chinmoy

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.
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Feeling Happiness Purity Run Sincere Thinking Yourself
To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.
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Expectation Rich Smile
Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.
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Acceptance Beginning Human Meditation Satisfaction
There comes a time in the seeker’s life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.
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Aspiration God Life Reveal Seek Soul Spiritual Time Transcedence
When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves.
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Moments Ourselves Rival Transcendence World
Real meditation is not done by us. It is done by our Inner Pilot, the Supreme, who is constantly meditating in and through us. We are just the vessel, and we are allowing Him to fill us with His whole Consciousness.
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Consciousness Meditation Reality
Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God’s Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.
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God Language Life Meditation See
A spiritual life means: It is now or never.
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Life Spiritual
Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us.
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Identify Leaving Ourselves Thinking Wrong
The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.
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Action Himself Human Lose Misfortune Peace Thinking
Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise.
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Beginning Failure Learning Lesson Powerful Teaching
Just one smile Immensely increases the beauty Of the universe.
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Beautiful Oneself Power Smile Universe
Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.
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Love Man Need Religious Spiritual
To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.
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Criticism Mark Person Stain
The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.
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Difficult Ourselves Perfection Try
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.
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Art Conscious Divine Easy Meditation Unity World

Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.

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Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.

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