Sivananda Quotes - Page 3

You should always keep your word. All the setbacks in life come only because you don't keep your word.

Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.

Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

Intuition transcends reason, but does not contradict it

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

This world is your body. This world is a great school, This world is your silent teacher.

Truth is complete in itself. Truth has a strong foundation in itself. It is bold, it has no fears. It has no limit of space or time. It is a fearless, free bird in the sky. It does not care for status. It is wealth in itself. Truth stands even when there is no public support.

Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

Music is the medium for expressing emotion. Music kindles love and infuses hope. It has countless voices and instruments. Music is in the hearts of all men and women

If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.

The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path

Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.

The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity.

Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.

Never worry. Be ever cheerful. Always laugh and smile. You can use the following powerful autosuggestion: "Mr. Worry, goodbye to you. I am a different person now. I am made of sterner stuff." Worry will now be afraid to show his face to you. You can then remove the worries of many of your friends.

Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.