Wonderful Words of Wisdom

\"Meditation can be sustained only if one lives a wholesome life, free from emotional entanglements and adharmic deeds.\" Gurudeva

\"I am with you always. You are God. God is with you.\" Yogaswami

\"When the Creator dances, the worlds He created dance. To the measure that He dances in our knowledge, our thoughts, too, dance. When He in heart-endearing dances, the several elements, too, dance. Witness in rapture surpassing the dance of that One who is a glowing flame.\" Tirumantiram, 2786

\"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.\" Maori proverb

\"Let there be conflict. The cream arises in conflict. What harm is there if this world is destroyed? What good can there be if it continues to exist? There is nothing very seriously wrong with anything.\" Satguru Yogaswami

\"I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God\" Sufi proverb

\"Many there are who do not even hear of Atman; though hearing of Him, many do not comprehend. Wonderful is the expounder and rare the hearer; rare indeed is the experiencer of Atman taught by an able preceptor.\" Katha Upanishad, 1.2.7

\"You are perfect this very moment. You are all that you will ever be. If you don\

t see it that way, then you live in a difficult state of affairs, striving toward perfection and being imperfect along the way.\" Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami'

\"The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music. The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.\" Rabindranath Tagore

\"A kindness done in the hour of need may itself be small, but in worth it exceeds the whole world.\" Tirukural 102

\"The real meaning of the scriptures can only be known in the silence of the mind.\" Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

\"We want to claim that which we already are. You are already the Self, you are just not aware of it. Do not put it off based upon some concept that we are not ready, we are not worthy, we need more of this or that. None of those principles apply when it comes to Self Realization.\" Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

\"Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.\" Anandamayi Ma

\"The most important thing a spiritual master does for his spiritual children is to make them consciously aware of something vast and infinite within themselves, which is nothing other than God Himself.\" Sri Chinmoy

\"Every belief creates certain attitudes. Attitudes govern our actions. Our actions can thus be traced to our inmost beliefs about ourself and the world around us.\" Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

\"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone\

s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.\" Rumi'

\"Renouncing all, I inwardly entered and beheld the Light within. My heart trembled. I prostrated low, but Him I never forgot. And the Lord of Celestials, freeing me from the whirl of births immortal, made me, here.\" Tirumantiram

\"When we think a change might only take 6 months, it is unrealistic and will actually take 6 years. That\

s why one must be ready for years of unrewarding sadhana.\' If we end up externalized or confused we can look to the group of spiritual people around us and they will stabilize us. You must maintain the overall perspective when going through those states.\" Satguru BodhinathaVeylanswami'

\"Life tests and retests our emotional maturity. Whether we meet those tests or fail is entirely up to us.\" Gurudeva

\"What you seek is seeking you.\" Rumi

\"Be humble, for you are made of the earth; be noble, for you are made of the stars.\" Serbian saying

\"First step--selfless action. Second step--tranquility. Third step--remaining in nishdai, or service to humanity, according to your will.\" Yogaswami

\"Things are as they should be.\" Swami Chidananda Saraswati

\"Realizing the Self is up to you. You have the ability.\" Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

\"All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind. The infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.\" Swami Vivekananda

\"Part of the Hindu religion teaches, more so than anything else, control of your mind; self-control.\" Rajeev Ram

\"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.\" Chinese proverb

\"You are God. I am God. Only one. You cannot separate me from you.\" Satguru Siva Yogaswami

\"The present is the result of past action. Man is the architect of his future.\" Satguru Yogaswami

\"Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.\" Adi Shankara

\"Always remember you\

re unique, just like everyone else.\" Anonymous'

\"Water is sufficient to cleanse the body, but truthfulness alone can purify the mind.\" Tirukkural 298

\"In a day when you don\

t come across any problems, you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path.\" Swami Vivekananda'

\"Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!\" Swami Sivananda

\"As the bee takes the essence of a flower and flies away without destroying its beauty and perfume, so let the sage wander in this life.\" Dhammapada, 50

\"Arise, awake! Stop not till the goal is reached.\" Swami Vivekananda

\"Attach yourself to Him who is free from all attachments. Bind yourself to that bond so all other bonds may be broken.\" Tirukkural 350

\"Because you think I am capable of loving or despising you, you cannot know who I am.\" Satguru Yogaswami

\"The cosmos is perfect, you know. Its laws are divine, its timing flawless, its design unique.\" Gurudeva

\"In the end, the Great Mystery is known as one, as two, as neither one nor two.\" Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

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