Merging With Siva Quotes

“Affectionate detachment is stronger than any attachment could possibly be, because attachment is created through unfulfilled desire, salted and peppered with fear. Fear of loss, fear of the unexpected, fear that life may not have much more to offer than what has already been offered, fear of old age, fear of harm, fear of accident—these are the fears which salt and pepper the unfulfilled desires. This is attachment.”
― Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics

“We cannot change the past, but we can change how we react to what has happened to us in the past, and we can change the future, anytime we want to.”
― Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics

“¶If we look at the past and we look at the future as both a series of dreams, and the only thing that we are concerned with is our immediate reactions and what we carry with us now, we see that the past is there to test us and the future is there to challenge us.”
― Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics

“Out of the millions and billions of human beings on Earth, there may be ten or twenty or even a hundred liberated souls. But God alone knows how many realized souls exist.”
― Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics