Swami Satchidananda Quotes

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• Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.
• Anything that you throw comes back. All your actions are echoes.
• Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call…
• Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best…
• [T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time…
• Now will never leave. It is always here. Like a clear canvas, it awaits our painting.
• The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.
• As you are, you see everything else.
• Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head
• In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.
• The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as…
• Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom…
• You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.
• The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think…
• True love knows no bargains. It is one-way traffic: giving, giving, giving.
• The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before…
• Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace…
• The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.
• Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.
• Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.

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