Swami Satchidananda Quotes

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

The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.

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.

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.

If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean.

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.

Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.

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.

Never give up; nothing is done overnight. Anyone who achieved anything in life always did it after many failures. Don’t give up hope.

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

Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you.

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

Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

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.

As you are, you see everything else.

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.

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

Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.

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.

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)

Don't depend on something that comes from outside. Outside things are never going to make you happy.

Our own true nature is Infinite Joy! Always happy, Always peaceful, Always free.