Top 28 Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.
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#3. 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.
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#4. Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.
Kenny Hickey
#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Self Realization is finding That which is beyond even superconsciousness itself, beyond the mind-timeless, causeless, spaceless.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.
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#11. In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next ...
Steve Almond
#12. If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
Adriana Lima
#13. Never had a decent report in his life!" Tony repeated, hardly able to believe the words. He was thinking, in shocked surprise, that even Tante Bettina did not know how mad the English could be.
Constance Savery
#14. It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
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#15. 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
#16. Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."
Rose Bird
#17. I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.
Simon Cowell
#18. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form. It contains every vibration from subtle to gross.
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#22. To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
Bertolt Brecht
#24. I'm able to actually choose places to go which have intrigued me for the last god knows how many years, and Tasmania's always been one of those places.
Robert Plant
#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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
#28. I can't believe this," I muttered, cradling the skein of water up close to my chest. "Two weeks in the desert all on account of some assassin who doesn't know how to look out for snakes."
"If you hadn't killed that snake," Naji said calmly, "I would have killed you."
" Oh, shut up.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
