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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

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten.
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Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.
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A spiritual life means: It is now or never.
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Life Spiritual
Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.
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If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.
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Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.
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Beautiful Flower Garden Growth Learning Paradise Soul Togetherness Tranquility
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
Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.
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Concept Earth Existence Gratitude Reality
No price is too great to pay for inner peace.
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If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer.
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Joy Life Meditation Simplicity Yourself
Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God’s Choice Hour.
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Choice Expectation God Peace World
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
There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.
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Effort Goodness Greatness Human Miracle
Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
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Journey Leadership Perfection Silence Talk Wisdom
Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.
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Hope Illumination Life Sun Sweet Yourself
Just one smile Immensely increases the beauty Of the universe.
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Beautiful Oneself Power Smile Universe
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
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
The atom has taught me that the little things do count – most.
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Count Myself Science Teaching Value Worth
Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.
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Gratitude Happiness Perfection Purity
A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.
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Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure. Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.
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Enemy Fear Friendship Hate Ignorance Knowledge
Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God’s gratitude, God the only gratitude.
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God Gratitude Service Soul World
What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.
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Bliss Conscious Light Meditation Peace Spiritual
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
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us.
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Deep Meditation Ourselves Time
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

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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