Yoga Quotes - Page 32

• Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Happy Birthday, Happiness, Inspirational Life

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1963). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  God, Meditation, Trying

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• Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Attitude, People, Judging

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• When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mind, Stills, Left

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• Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Meditation, Mind, Novices

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• When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Rocks, Mind, Energy

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• The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Roots, Mind, Bliss

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• The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mind, Inquiry, Calm

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• There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Men, Self, Shining

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Meditation, Mind, Helping

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• Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Meditation, Mind, Gains

  Ramana (Maharshi.), Paul Brunton, Mungala Venkataramiah (1984). “Conscious Immortality: Conversations with Ramana Maharshi”

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• When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mind, Consciousness, Turns

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• See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Ego, Doubters, Consciousness

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• Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Realization, Delusion

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Source, Said

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• The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Moving, Independent

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• Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Awareness, Currents

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• Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Realization, Disappear, States

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Doubt, Gains

  "Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi".

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• A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, People, Silence

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• Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Thinking Of You, Grief, Self

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• Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

  Confucius

  Receiving, Guests, Things To Do

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  Confucius

  Friendship, True Love, True Friend

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• Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

  Confucius

  Simple, Virtue, Endure

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• The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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