Sivananda Quotes - Page 3

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• Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

  Sivananda

  Men, Understanding, Path

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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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• This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

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  Teacher, Yoga, School

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• Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path

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  Spiritual, Tolerance, Growth

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• When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.

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  Religious, Heart, Religion

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• Man needs now no more degrees, but character,
  No more study, but wisdom.

  Sivananda

  Character, Men, Degrees

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• Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

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  Inspiring, Depression, Attitude

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• Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization.

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  Night, Civilization, Greatest Treasure

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• Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

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  Life, Purpose, Realization

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• You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.

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  Wisdom, Hope, Integrity

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• The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

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  Past, Thinking, Mind

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• Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.

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  Respect, Views, Unity

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• Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength.

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  Attitude, Sacrifice, Hatred

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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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• If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

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  Focus, Mind, Rays

  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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• A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.

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  Meditation, Mind, Transcendental

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• Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

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  May, Today, Tomorrow

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• 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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  Men, Evil, Quality

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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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• Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.

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  Thinking, People, World

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• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

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  Ocean, Water, Mountain

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• Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.

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  Buddhist, Giving, Realizing

  Swami Sivananda (1962). “Unity of Religions”

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• The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

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  Practice, Asana, Disease

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

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  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.

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  Inspiration, Lord, Treats

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