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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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• 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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• True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.

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  Giving, Way, Traffic

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

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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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• 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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• God knows your breaking point. You simply don’t know your own strength.

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  Point Break, God Knows, Knows

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

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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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• 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)

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  Worst Enemy, Suffering, Unhappy

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

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• Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head

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  Yoga, Mind, Calming

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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’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won’t hit rock again. (52)

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  Rocks, Effort, Encounters

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

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• Yoga is not only learning to stand on your head but also learning to stand on your feet.

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  Yoga, Feet

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• Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation or release from his bondage. And the fourth will not ask for anything. He will just enjoy praying and praising his Lord. That is the highest form of prayer. (Beyond Word, 119)

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  Prayer, Suffering, Progress

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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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• The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.

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  Light, Self, Ordinary

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

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• Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.

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  Yoga, Meditation, Healthy

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• Every pain has a gain behind it

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  Pain, Gains, Behinds

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• We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

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  Serenity, Midst, Calamity

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

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• The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Rivers, Stones

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• Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)

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  Philosophy, Practice, Goal

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• Equality comes in realizing that we are all doing different jobs for a common purpose. That is the aim behind any community. The very name community means let's come together to recognize the unity. Come ... unity.

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  Jobs, Mean, Names

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• One truth, many paths.

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  Truth, Path, Many Paths

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• Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.

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  Home, Doe, Charity

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• Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom of the mental lake. Although they go down, they aren’t completely erased. Don’t think you ever forget anything. All experiences are stored in the chittam; and, when the proper atmosphere is created, they come to the surface again. When we do something several times it forms a habit. Continue with that habit for a long time, and it becomes your character. Continue with that character and eventually, perhaps in another life, it comes up as instinct.

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  Yoga, Character, Thinking

  "Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" by Swami Satchidananda, p. 108, December 1, 1984.

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• [T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time to meditate. (140)

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  Morning, Meditation, Four

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