Top 26 Sivaya Quotes
#1. It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#2. He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.
Julian Lennon
#3. Terplash, & what difference make! One little white spark of light! Hair woven hands Penelope seaboat smeller
Is Virgin you trying to fathom me Tiresome old sea, aint you sick & tired of all of this merde? this incessant boom boom & sand walk
Jack Kerouac
#4. Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#5. A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.
Mark Twain
#6. The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself - consciously.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#7. People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires ... and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#8. The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#9. There really is no ethical difference between eating a cat or a chicken, a dog or a pig.
Steve-O
#10. Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind-timeless, causeless, spaceless.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#11. Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#12. Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#14. Karma literally means "deed" or "act" and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction which governs all life. Karma is a natural law of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#15. Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#16. My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
Michael Caine
#17. To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.
Andrew Loomis
#18. Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#19. We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when we are miserable and work with ourselves to replace our misery with joy and understanding.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#20. The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form. It contains every vibration from subtle to gross.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#21. The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.
Matthew Norman
#23. You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#24. This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#25. Books light the fire - whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.
Meg Wolitzer
#26. We neither fear death nor look forward to it, but revere it as a most exalted experience. Life, death and the afterlife are all part of our path to perfect oneness with God.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
