Sivananda Quotes

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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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  Names, Goal, Achievement

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• This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!

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  Motivational, Uplifting, Faith

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• The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

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  Pain, Yoga, Inspiration

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• The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.

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  Character, Heart, Self

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• Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't fear the darkness if you carry the light within.

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  Light, Darkness, Light Within

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• Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony.

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  Inspirational, Weed, Heart

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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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  Love, Spiritual, Thinking

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• An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

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  Practice, Theory

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• Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

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  Cheer, Giving, Joy

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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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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  Children, Heart, Hatred

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• Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.

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  Self, Mind, No Fear

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• Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we

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  Wellness, Illness

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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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  Kindness, Heart, Life Is Short

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• To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.

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  Self, Lasting Happiness, Perfect

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• Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.

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  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

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• Never worry. Be ever cheerful. Always laugh and smile. You can use the following powerful autosuggestion: "Mr. Worry, goodbye to you. I am a different person now. I am made of sterner stuff." Worry will now be afraid to show his face to you. You can then remove the worries of many of your friends.

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  Motivational, Goodbye, Powerful

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• Giving is the secret of abundance.

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  Giving, Secret, Abundance

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• Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don't die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.

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  Laughter, Drinking, Sleep

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• 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.

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  Smile, Wise, Laughter

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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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  Truth, Views, Different

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• Learn to give, give in plenty, give with love, give without any expectation, one does not lose anything by giving, on the other hand you get back a thousand fold.

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  Hands, Giving, Expectations

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• You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

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  Freedom, Realizing, Knows

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• 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, Heart, Pages

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

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  Light, Meditation, Heaven

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