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You have more comforts and conveniences than any previous generation. But people are suffering immensely.
almost every fifth person is on some kind of medication just to maintain mental balance.
When you have to take a tablet every day to remain sane, this is not joyfulness. You are on the verge of breaking down because you have made a small a...
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Death is not the end of life. Death is simply the end of the body.
Asatoma sadgamaya. From ignorance, lead me to truth.
If you tell yourself you don’t want to think a certain thought, that is precisely the first thing your mind will produce!
When it comes to the outside, there are a million ingredients, and nobody has complete mastery over them.
When it comes to the inner situation, however, there is only one ingredient: you.
You can be the sole architect and creator of ...
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As the experience of space grows, the mind is no more a mess.
It is a great symphony, a tremendous possibility that can take you to great heights.
Vedanta is the school of Indian metaphysics that speaks of the non-duality of the self and the divine.
“You are not just this or that; you are everywhere. There is nothing like ‘yours’ and ‘mine’; everything is you, everything is yours. In essence, everything is one.
Sadhana Remind yourself at least once an hour that everything you’re carrying—your handbag, your money, your relationships, the heaviness in your heart and body—are things that you’ve accumulated over a period of time.
French philosopher René Descartes: “I think, therefore I am.”
You can “be,” and still choose to think or not think.
This is the fundamental choice you have: either you learn to live with creation, or you manufacture your own creation in your head.
you think your thought—which is less than a speck within you—should determine the nature of existence! You have lost your perspective of life: that is the basic problem.
A human being who has transcended his intellect, the discriminatory and logical dimensions of his life, is a Buddha.
Once you are no longer identified with your mind, you are free to experience life beyond limitations.
Being a Buddha means that you have become a witness to your own intellect.
essence of yoga, as we have said before, is just this—to arrive at that moment where there is a clear space between you and your mind. Once this happens, a life of heightened clarity, perception,...
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Only if you know when logic should be used and when it’s necessary to go beyond it, will your life be beautiful.
dharana, which means “that which flows.”
Whatever you are identified with, all your thoughts and emotions spring from that identity.
gnana yoga, or the yoga of knowing.
Just sit alone for an hour. No reading, no television, no phone, no communication, nothing. Just see in the course of this hour what thoughts dominate your mind—whether
If you find yourself thinking recurrently about people or things, your identification is essentially with your body.
your thoughts are about what you would like to do in the world, your identification is e...
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Believing means you have assumed something that you do not know; seeking means you have realized that you do not know.
if you have a good seed and if you create the right atmosphere, it will sprout.
if your mind is conscious, it is magic; it is a miracle; it is a bridge to the beyond.
kalpavriksha, or a wishing tree that grants any boon. With such a mind, whatever you ask for becomes a reality.
A mind that can manifest whatever it chooses is described in yoga as being in a state of samyukti. This is a skillfulness that arises out of equanimity.
If you generate a powerful thought and let it out, it will always manifest itself.
Only when the gnawing anxiety of self-preservation is completely eliminated from your mind would you dare to explore life.
You realize love is not something that you do; love is the way you are.
If you can look at everything lovingly, the whole world becomes beautiful in your experience.
devotee is someone who seeks to explore and experience life as fully as possible.
Devotion is not a dissection of life, but a total embrace.
The divine is not an entity sitting up there; it is a living force every moment of your life. Devotion makes you aware of this.
The more you delve into life, you see that it is an endless and unfathomable process. You cannot get it because you are it.
everything in the universe can be seen as just one energy.
The human longing to expand is actually just an expression of the ultimate formless intelligence that is the very source of who we are.
It is only when you consciously head in the direction of your life energies that you find equanimity and harmony.
Pain is bad enough; why make it worse with suffering? Suffering is entirely self-created. And
If you can joyfully do whatever is needed in a given situation, this is freedom.
“Karma” literally means “action.”
the quality of your life is always decided by how you experience life, not by what life offers you.
Karma is what gives stability and structure to your life.
