Swami Satchidananda Quotes

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

  Swami Satchidananda

  Letting Go, Peace, Undoing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.

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  Peaceful, Becoming, Growing

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

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  Winning, Greatest Victory, Over You

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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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• 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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• Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.

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  One Day, Littles, Months

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• As you are, you see everything else.

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• Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

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  Energy, Sound, World

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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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• Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.

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  Giving Up, Attitude, Don't Give Up

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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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• Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.

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  Giving Up, Ocean, Gains

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• You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.

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  Spiritual, Teacher, Light

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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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