When you love who you are, you automatically bring out the best in you.

You select the thoughts that will be nurtured, and with patience they grow and contribute to creating the garden of experiences you want.

Responsibility gives us the power to make changes in our lives.

Everyone is a reflection of us, and what we see in another person, we see in ourselves.

Even if we don’t know how to love ourselves, the fact that we are willing to love ourselves will create the difference.

Doctors are good at removing growths, only we can keep them from re-appearing.

I don’t care how spiritual you are, you have got to wash your dishes every now and then.

One of the primary ways we mask our fears is through addictions.

When we trust the process of life and our spiritual connection with the Universe, we can dissolve our angers and fears as soon as they disappear.

To release the past, we want to be willing to forgive, even if we don’t know how.

When you forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

You can begin meditation anywhere and allow it to become a habit. Think of meditation as focusing on your Higher power.

No matter what negative situation you are in, it’s there for a reason; otherwise you wouldn’t have it in your life.

It takes a lot to make children stop loving their parents, but when they do, it takes even more for them to forgive them.

When we won’t forgive, hen we won’t let go, we’re binding ourselves to the past, and when we are stuck in the past, we cannot live in present time, and if we are not living in the present, how can we create our glorious future?

We spend a lot of energy trying to make others different. If we used half that energy on ourselves, we could make ourselves different, and when we are different, others respond differently to us.

There is a principle of life in the universe, and it is the One living substance from which all things are made.

Faith, personally applied, cures. And no matter how great the faith or how persistent the thought, it will not cure without personal application.

The purpose of nature can be nothing else than the perfection of life.

The thoughts of disease produce the forms of disease. A person must learn to think health.

The power of nature within you is sufficient to overcome all hereditary impressions.

The first step towards acting externally like a well person is to begin to act internally like a well person.

Exercise your will power in choosing only those thoughts that are thoughts of health, and arrange your environment so that it shall suggest thoughts of health.

God, who seeks to live and express himself fully in humanity, delights to give human beings all that is needed for the most abundant life.

Never think of yourself as sick, or as likely to be sick; never think of sickness in connection with yourself at all.

When you learn to cooperate with Nature you will want what is good for you, and you will eat what you want.

Never eat until you have an earned hunger, no matter how long you go without food.

A human being is a thinking substance, permeating a visible body, and the processes of his body are controlled by his thought.

Gratitude has a two fold effect; it strengthens your own faith, and it brings you into close and harmonious relations with the Supreme.

Everything in the universe wants you to be well. You have absolutely nothing to overcome but your own habit of thinking.

The measure of a person’s strength is not what God is willing to give him, but what he, himself, has the will and the intelligence to appropriate to himself.

Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way the actually are.

Looking at people and communicating that they can be loved, and that they can love in return, is giving them a tremendous gift.

When the source of satisfaction or happiness is seen as limited, we fix upon it.

Anger and aversion express themselves in acts of hostility and persecution.

In order to be released from deeply held aversion for ourselves and for others, we must be able to practice forgiveness.

Our freedom to love arises from discovering that we can live without the concept of self and other.

Compassion is not at all weak. It is the strength that arises out of seeing the true nature of suffering in the world.

Whenever someone speaks truthfully to us or deceitfully, harshly or gently, we might respond with a loving mind.

Comparing ourselves to others is a very powerful mental affliction.

No one in this world experiences only pleasure and no pain, and no one experiences only gain, no loss. When we open to this truth, we discover that there is no need to hold on or to push away.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart.

The law of karma is not the only conditioning force that creates events in our lives, but it one of the strongest.

Happiness and unhappiness depend upon our actions.

Fear is the primary mechanism sustaining the concept of the ‘other’, and reinforcing the subsequent loneliness nd distance in our lives.

When we learn to move beyond mistaken concepts and see clearly, we no longer solidify reality. We see waves coming and going, arising and passing.

Perhaps the most vital transformation we undergo when we practice meditation and the brahma-viharas is the transformation in our perception of what is possible.

Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes on mindfulness

You can begin by smoking mindfully and drinking mindfully because I know if you really do that, you will stop smoking and drinking very soon.

Without the practice of mindful living, we allow toxins to come through all the six doors of our senses and that is why we have to protect ourselves.

You eat in such a way that compassion and joy  becomes possible.

…all of us have the power to change the situation, if we care to practice mindful walking, mindful breathing to encourage the energy of mindfulness and to practice looking deeply to understand.

Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes on listening and Communication

In order to restore communication, you have to learn the art of listening very deeply and using loving speech.

If you want to help your beloved one, to make him/her suffere less, you have to learn the art of compassionate listening.

Regardless of the spiritual or religious traditions that we may belong to, we should recognize the necessity of listening deeply with compassion, and using only loving speech.

Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes on life

Compassion is the only kind of energy that can help us relate to the world outside, to other living beings.

If we know how to practice looking deeply, we will be able to uproot the painful emotions.

One wrong perception is enough to destroy the happiness of a whole family, of our whole life, especially when we are proud.

Take good care of yourself  by meditation. Take good care of the body.

According to the Buddhist teachings, all our mental formations, citta samskara, are of an organic nature and can be transformed.

The energy of anger in you can be transformed into the energy of understanding and compassion.

Dalai Lama quotes represent not only highest spiritual wisdom but also find an intense practical application. HH Dalai Lama, being himself a down to earth person, provides many useful suggestions to improve our state of mind in the book ‘The art of Happiness’, in his conversations with Howard C Cutler.

Although it is possible to achieve happiness, happiness is not a simple thing. There are many levels. In Buddhism for example, there is a reference to the four factors of fulfillment, or happiness: wealth, wordly satisfaction, spirituality, and enlightenment. Together they embrace the totality of an individual’s quest for happiness.

Every day as soon as you get up, you can develop a sincere positive motivation, thinking, “I will utilize this day in a more positive way. I should not waste this very day.” And then, at night before bed, check what you’ve done, asking yourself, “Did I utilize this day as planned?”

HH Dalai Lama

In generating compassion, you start by recognizing that you do not want suffering and that you have a right to have happiness. …You then recognize that other people, just like yourself, also do not want to suffer and they have a right to have happiness. So this becomes the basis of your beginning to generate compassion.

Generally speaking, once you’re already in a difficult situation, it isn’t possible to change your attitude simply by adopting a particular thought once or twice. Rather it’s through a process of learning, training, and getting used to new viewpoints that enables you to deal with the difficulty.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness..

Whenever I meet people, I always approach them from the standpoint of the most basic things we have in common. We each have a physical structure, a mind, emotions. We all are born in the same way, and we all die. All of us want happiness and do not want to suffer. Looking at others from this standpoint rather than emphasizing secondary differences such as the fact that I am Tibetan, or a different color, religion, or cultural background, allows me to have a feeling that I’m meeting someone just the same as me.

HH Dalai Lama Quotes related books

Words of Wisdom from the Dalai Lama

365 Dalai Lama: Daily Advice from the Heart

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The following Lahiri Mahasaya quotes and sayings are taken from the Purana Purusha Yogiraj Sri Shama Churn Lahiree,  the biography of Lahiri Mahasaya written by Dr Ashoke Kumar Chatterjee

The seven Lahiri Mahasaya Sayings

Disciples have compiled the sayings of Lahiri Mahasaya as follows:

Sri Lahiri Mahasaya Quotes and Sayings resonate spiritual wisdom

1. The one who perpetually cogitates on God, all his actions are executed by Him.

2. If you take refuge in me with true faith, then no matter how far I may be, is there any other alternative other than not making myself present to you?

3. It is not necessary to seek grace from the Master. It automatically comes without seeking if his instructions are stringently followed.

4. None can equal the munificence of the Master.

5. Thirst can never be quenched by merely observing the reflection of a river through a mirror.

6. None is petty, It is the mind which is petty.

7. If you consider my photograph to be a mere photograph it will be so; but if you regard it to be a girdle of protection, it will be that.

Other Lahiri Mahasaya Quotes

Just as Rajasthani belles carrying pitchers on their heads crack jokes on the way yet their mind is fixed on the pitcher, similarly place the mind on Kutashtha and perform all actions.

Just as, if day exists night also has to exist; if happiness exists misery also has to exist; similarly if the propitious deity exists, the unpropitious deity also exists.

Nurse Prana, for by tending Prana, you will reap benefits and not nursing prana will bring harm upon yourself. Prana is served by practicing Pranakarma. The dynamism of Prana is harmful, stillness is beneficial.

The faculty of a river is to flow towards it’s source, the sea. Whether it desires or not, at one point of time nature will force it to merge in it’s source. Similarly a living being’s disposition is to proceed towards his source or origin, Brahma.

Related Books:

Autobiography of a Yogi

The Scriptural Commentaries of Yogiraj Sri Sri Shyama Charan Lahiri Mahasaya: Volume 1

The Scriptural Commentaries of Yogiraj Sri Sri Shyama Charan Lahiri Mahasaya: Volume 2

More Lahiri Mahasaya Quotes can be read from the above books.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically it means that you want the future, you don’t want the present.

As long as the egoistic mind is running your life, you cannot truly be at ease; you can not be at peace or fulfilled except for brief intervals when you obtained what you wanted, when a craving has just been fulfilled.

The more you are identified with your thinking, your likes and dislikes, judgements and interpretations, which is to say the less present you are as the watching consciousness.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

If you are drawn to an enlightened teacher, it is because there is already enough presence in you to recognize the presence in another.

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

Most of the so-called bad things that happen in people’s lives are due to unconsciousness. They are self-created, or rather ego-created.

As long as a condition is judged as ‘good’ by your mind, whether it be  relationship, a possession, a social role, a place or your physical body, the mind attaches itself to it and identified with it.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfilment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the job of Being.

Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance.

The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind. This is the only true liberation.

When I say ‘time is illusion’, my intention is not to make a philosophical statement. I am just reminding you of a simple fact – a fact so obvious that you may find it hard to grasp and may even find it meaningless – but once fully realized, it can cut like a sword through all the mind-created layers of complexity and ‘problems’.

Love, Joy and Peace are deep states of Being or rather three aspects of the state of inner connectedness with Being. As such, they have no opposite.

About practicing the present moment: In your everyday life, you can practice (this) by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it fullest attention.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) was the author of the famous ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’, where first time a Yogi’s life and point of view is presented to the public elaborately. He was also one of the pioneers of Kriya Yoga in the modern times.

In contrast to the slow, uncertain ‘bullock cart’ theological path to God, Kriya Yoga may justly be called the ‘airplane’ route.

Untying the cord of breath that binds the soul to the body, Kriya serves to prolong life and to enlarge the consciousness to infinity.

Experiment with your thoughts. Try out your strongest thoughts on your body. See if you cannot overcome undesirable thoughts and persistent ailments. When you are successful, you may apply your thought to make changes in the world around you.

Just as the cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusive seeming.

Give your troubles to God. When you worry, it is your funeral, all arranged by yourself.

You must never admit defeat. Only when you have admitted defeat are you defeated.

What I give to you I want you to realize for yourself through your own personal communion with God. Nothing can match that understanding.

A Yogi who through perfect meditation has merged his consciousness with the creator, perceives the cosmical essence as light (vibrations of life energy); to him there is no difference between the light rays composing water and the light rays composing land.

The purpose of this life is to find your Self. Know your Self. Feel the throb of the ocean of God’s presence in your heart.

Perfect control of feeling makes you king of yourself. Never be addicted to anything or bound by any habit.

The only difference between consciousness and matter, mind and body is the rate of vibration. Vibration is the motion of energy.

When you pray to Jesus he feels your prayer. Free souls such as Jesus are aware of the calls of their devotees. You may not know they are receiving the vibrations of your feelings, but they are. And when your loving demand is very strong, great ones come to you

The mind must acquire greater control over the body. To be able to live by the power of mind is wonderful, because the mind can do whatever you want it to.

The secret of success and happiness is inside you. If you have found success and prosperity outside, but not inside, you are not truly successful.

Sri Yukteswar was the Guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, the author of famous ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ and who spread the teachings of Kriya Yoga in the modern age. Sri yukteswar was well known for his wisdom and he wrote the book ‘The Holy Science’ in order to demonstrate the oneness among all the religions.  Read below Sri Yukteswar Quotes, words of highest spiritual wisdom.

Sri Yukteswar Quotes

Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.

Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.

Is the whole world going to change for you? Change yourself

Medicines have limitations; the divine creative life force  has none. Believe that; you shall be well and strong.

Saintliness is not dumbness! Divine perceptions are not incapacitating! The active expression of virtue gives rise to the keenest intelligence.

God does not wish the secrets of His creation revealed promiscuously. Also, every individual in the world has an inalienable right to his free will. A saint will not encroach on that independence.

Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at the same time to remove yourself beyond their power.

Spiritual advancement is not to be measured by one’s displays of outward powers, but solely by the depth of his bliss in meditation.

Human life is beset with sorrow until we know how to tune in with the Divine Will.

God alone gives unerring counsel; who but Him bears the burden of cosmos?

Each of the five sensory nerves has its characteristic and unique function to pereform. The optic nerve carries light and does not perform the functions of the auditory and other nerves; …Thus it is clear that there are five sorts of electricities, corresponding to the five
properties of cosmic electricity.

Penance is patience or even-mindedness in all conditions (equanimity amidst the essential dualities of Maya; cold and heat, pain and pleasure etc.).

All creation is governed by law. The principles that operate in the outer universe, discoverable by scientists, are called natural laws. But there are subtler laws that rule the hidden spiritual planes and the inner realm of consciousness; these principles are knowable through the science of Yoga.

Sri Yukteswar Quotes – Related Books

Sri yukteswar

The Holy Science by Swami Sri Yukteswar

A Collection of Biographies of 4 Kriya Yoga Gurus

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It is said that we are souls with a body rather than the other way.  Spiritual wisdom quotes satisfy our soul hunger.

Spiritual Wisdom is when we realize that we are not just the body but higher than the body. In these pages, you will find various spiritual wisdom quotes that inspire and lift you.

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There are various levels people achieve in spiritual understanding. Some saints would have got complete enlightenment achieving the highest nature. Some others would be progressing on the path with some good spiritual understanding.

Some more others may still be struggling and many more may not be fortunate to have a spiritual understanding. Irrespective of the level of people, some times the words and sayings from them may be actually spiritual. Some one who does not believe in God may  be a great humanitarian and his/her words might carry much more spiritual wisdom than a devotee.This is because spirituality is different from Religion. So in these pages, you can find quotes from all such people whatever level they are, but their words carry spiritual significance.

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How spiritual wisdom quotes can help you

When you are reading quotes, you are reading only a small fraction of the person’s wisdom and also probably out of context. So when you read a quote, look inside yourself, what do you feel about it. If you feel aligned, if you feel connected, the quote will uplift you, inspire you and evince your further interest.It is so, pursue the quote and author further by thinking more about the topic of the quote, by contemplating on the quote and by reading more from he same author.

Whether you believe it or not, a spiritual wisdom quote, saying or book will come to you only when your soul needed it from inside. Again when we use the word spiritual, we are not talking about  religion or some belief but about a connectivity with our higher nature.

Keep an open mindwhile studying spiritual wisdom quotes

While reading the spiritual quotes, keep an open mind.  Do not identify yourself with any religion, belief or custom but rather open up yourself for a higher wisdom. Just as a scientist carries research with an open mind, carry out your spiritual journey without any pre-determined biases or expectations.

Many times people say that you need to believe before you start on the spiritual path. While belief may some times help, it is not necessary and it is also not possible. Don’t be afraid to start without full belief and with an experimental approach. Eventually, when you keep an open perspective, you will be able to understand the higher reality yourself.

It is good to read from others how nice an orange or mango tastes but it is nothing like you, yourself tasting it. In the same way, spirituality is not much about reading but about practice and about experiencing the truth yourself. The spiritual wisdom quotes can inspire you to put such an effort and approach.