Swami Satchidananda Quotes

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• Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

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  Acceptance, Expectations, Peaceful

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• Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way better than we know ourselves.

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  Karma, Opportunity, Perspective

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• Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.

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  Letting Go, Peace, Undoing

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• If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Faces

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• We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)

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  Change, Laughing, Bird

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.

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  Positivity, Echoes, Action

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• Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something.

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  Believe, Yoga, World

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• Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

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  Running, Ocean, Rivers

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• We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.

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  Yoga, Self, Atman

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• Who will be the happiest person?
  The one who brings happiness to others.

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  Being Generous, Persons, Generous Person

  Swami Satchidananda (1987). “The Golden Present: Daily Inspirational Readings”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you.

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  Running, Secret, Want

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• You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

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  Joy, Enemy, Causes

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• The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.

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  Light, Take Your Time

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• Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all.

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  Kicking, Tonight, Alive

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• Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don’t give up hope.

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  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Done

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• If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)

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  Fighting, Opportunity, Giving

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both. There is not good without bad. They are both sides of the same coin. Both are necessary. We have been given free will and discriminating capacity to select what is beneficial to us and to avoid what is detrimental to us. Even Cobra poison can be used as medicine.

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  Medicine, Poison, Coins

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• Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115)

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  Jesus, Answers, May

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• There is one Cosmic Essence, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful. This nameless formless essence can be approached by any name, any form, any symbol that suites the taste of the individual. Follow your religion, but try to understand the real purpose behind all of the rituals and traditions, and experience that Oneness.

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  Powerful, Real, Essence

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• Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.

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  Mindfulness, Painting, Canvas

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• Don't depend on something that comes from outside. Outside things are never going to make you happy.

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  Make You Happy, Depends

  Swami Satchidananda (1987). “The Golden Present: Daily Inspirational Readings”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision.

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  Mind, Vision, Needs

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• Our own true nature is Infinite Joy!
  Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.

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  Wisdom, Fun, Joy

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• The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.

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  Winning, Greatest Victory, Over You

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• What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)

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  Loss, Names, Giving

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