Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.
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.
Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.
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.
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.
The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.
Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.
If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.
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)
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.
If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.
Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don’t give up hope.
Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you.
Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.
The greatest victory you can win is over your own mind.
Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.
Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.
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.
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)
You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.
Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.
As you are, you see everything else.
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)
Everything begins in the mind. If you want to see clearly, you need clear vision.
God knows your breaking point. You simply don’t know your own strength.
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