Muktananda Quotes

#1. Yet the love we experience through other people is just a shadow of the love of the inner self. There is a sublime place inside us where love dwells. The love that pulses in the cave of the heart does not depend on anything outside. It does not expect anything. It is completely independent.

Swami Muktananda

#2. Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

Swami Muktananda

#3. Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

Swami Muktananda

#4. That's an old saying I just made up.

Kenny Loggins

#5. It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.

Swami Muktananda

#6. to be incapable of a feeling of poetry, in my sense of the word, is to be without love of human nature

William Wordsworth

#7. Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.

Swami Muktananda

#8. The world is nothing but a school of love;
our relationships with our husband or wife,
with our children and parents,
with our friends and relatives
are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.

Swami Muktananda

#9. To experience love, we must go inside. When you experience real love you get into a state which is beyond words. You are filled with a joy that goes beyond all emotions. True love is the love of the inner Self.

Swami Muktananda

#10. Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.

Swami Muktananda

#11. The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.

Swami Muktananda

#12. The fewer the desires, the more peace.

Woodrow Wilson

#13. Ma-a-a-n-I'm very excited to put my heart into somethin' that's 100% Swizz Beatz. I usually work behind the scenes, and I did that for 10 years, and now I'm ready for the forefront ... and [to] really get the legacy moving to another level.

Swizz Beatz

#14. Love turns ma into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.

Swami Muktananda

#15. I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell!

Rachel Nichols

#16. Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time ... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the mind dance. Make it dance on the stage of mantra. For that, mediate and repeat mantra.

Swami Muktananda

#17. The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence.

Swami Muktananda

#18. One who loves his own Self loves the whole world.

Swami Muktananda

#19. Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us.

Swami Muktananda

#20. If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

Swami Muktananda

#21. The kind of stupid you can manage to achieve only by being really, really smart, because only really, really smart people can reach adulthood without having any goddamn common sense.

Mira Grant

#22. Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love ... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love ...

Swami Muktananda

#23. You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness.
Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy.

Swami Muktananda