Eknath Easwaran

The Buddha called life a sea because the sea is moving constantly. All the world’s great religions remind us that we are sailing on an ocean of impermanence. Every experience is transient. Even this body, with which we identify ourselves, changes from day to day. This body of mine is not the same as it was last year. And what about the mind? In the language of Buddhism, the mind is a process, changing all the time. It is a succession of desires. If we satisfy one desire, another will follow; if we satisfy that, a third will come. No experience can bring permanent satisfaction because there is a limitless series of desires, one behind another, in the vast sea of consciousness.

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15 YEARS OF SELF-DISCOVERY: WHAT I'VE LEARNED

1. lying underground all night in order to meet death, going on a 72-hour psychedelic trip, or staying silent and meditating for 10 days without a break — is nothing. the coolest practice is to live each day so that you feel good and calm deep in your heart, even when the world is collapsing

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Bodhidharma

To look on life as different from death or on motion as different from stillness is to be partial. To be impartial means to look on suffering as no different from nirvana, because the nature of both is emptiness. By imagining they’re putting an end to suffering and entering nirvana arhats end up trapped by nirvana. But bodhisattvas know that suffering is essentially empty. And by remaining in emptiness they remain in nirvana. Nirvana means no birth and no death. It’s beyond birth and death and beyond nirvana. When the mind stops moving, it enters nirvana. Nirvana is an empty mind. Where delusions don’t exist, buddhas reach nirvana. Where afflictions don’t exist, bodhisattvas enter the place of enlightenment.

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Upanishad Wisdom

That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings, who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being
— I am that.

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Swami Vivekananda

The most obvious manifestation of this Prana in the human body is the motion of the lungs. If that stops, the body will stop; all the other manifestations of force in the body will immediately stop, if this is stopped.
The most obvious of all motions in the body is the motion of the lungs, the flywheel which is setting all the other forces in motion. Pranayama really means controlling this motion of the lungs, and this motion is associated with the breath. Not that breath is producing it; on the contrary it is producing breath. This motion draws the air by pump action. The Prana is moving the lungs, and that motion of the lungs draws in the air.
So Pranayama is not breathing, but controlling that muscular power which moves the lungs, and that muscular power which is going out through the nerves to the muscles, from them to the lungs,making them move in a certain manner, in the Prana, which we have to control in the practice of Pranayama.

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Haemin Sunim

When everything around me is moving so fast, I stop and ask, “Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?”

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Rhonda Byrne

Quantum physics explains that everything in the Universe is made of energy vibrating at a certain frequency, and that includes your thoughts. Thoughts are also made of energy; they can be measured, and they each have a particular frequency. Your thoughts attract back to them people, circumstances, and events that are on the same frequency. Like attracts like, and through the law of attraction the things you think about the most are what come into your life. In other words, you create your life through your thoughts. Everything that comes into your life you have attracted into your life through the thoughts you’ve been thinking.
Like all the laws of nature, the law of attraction is immutable; no one is above it or excluded from it. It is impersonal, and operates on all of us equally—on every subject, and on every single thought.

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Kahlil Gibran

Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied,
And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

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Upanishad Wisdom

"Away from the chatter of the senses, from the restless wanderings of the mind, there is a quiet pool of stillness. The wise call this stillness the highest state of being. It is the place where we find unity – never to become separate again.”

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Hathayoga Pradipika by Swatmarama

This affordable, definitive edition of the Hatha Yoga Pradipika contains the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, and full-page photographs of all the asanas. The chakras, kundalini, mudras, shakti, nadis, bandhas, and many other topics are explained. This is the first edition of the classic manual on Hatha Yoga to meet high academic, literary, and production standards. It's for people who practice Yoga, and for anyone with an interest in heath and fitness, philosophy, religion, spirituality, mysticism, or meditation.

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Lodro Rinzler

What is going on right now can be stressful. What is going on right now might also be joyful. But it is always real. It is always the reality of the situation. So in that sense, meditation is not going to be a cure-all for stress but is very much going to help you address what your reality is on a moment-by-moment basis.

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❝Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop .❞

~Rumi

Are you happy today?

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J Krishnamurti

To understand this is to understand what it means to be lonely. Have you ever been lonely? Do you know what it means?—that you have no relationship with another, are completely isolated. You may be with your family, in a crowd, or in the office, wherever you are, when this complete sense of utter loneliness with its despair suddenly comes upon you. Till you solve that completely, your relationship becomes a means of escape and therefore it leads to corruption, to misery. How is one to understand this loneliness, this sense of complete isolation? To understand it, one has to look at one’s own life. Is not your every action a self-centred activity? You may occasionally be charitable, generous, do something without any motive—those are rare occasions. This despair can never be dissolved through escape, but by observing it.

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Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns, the moons, the stars, the planets. They in their turn, are trying to rush towards each other, and at last, we know that the whole universe, mental and material, will be fused into one. The process that is going on in the cosmos on a large scale, is the same as that going on in the microcosm on a smaller scale. Just as this universe has its existence in separation, in distinction, and all the while is rushing towards unity, non-separation, so in our little worlds each soul is born, as it were, cut off from the rest of the world. The more ignorant, the more unenlightened the soul, the more it thinks that it is separate from the rest of the universe. The more ignorant the person, the more he thinks, he will die or will be born, and so forth—ideas that are an expression of this separateness. But we find that, as knowledge comes, man grows, morality is evolved and the idea of non-separateness begins. Whether men understand it or not, they are impelled by that power behind to become unselfish. That is the foundation of all morality. It is the quintessence of all ethics, preached in any language, or in any religion, or by any prophet in the world.

Swami Vivekananda

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Do what you are good at, that has always been my advice. If you can sing, sing your heart out; sing to the world, and the world will reward your singing. If you can dance, dance your way to the stars, and become a star. If you can play the tabla, then tabla your way to glory! If you can paint, become another Gauguin, another Jamini Roy. If you can visualize a story, a screenplay, aim to be another Satyajit Ray, a Renoir, a Benegal. If you can act, be an actor. If you are better behind the camera, be a great cameraman. Be a camera!

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Haemin Sunim

When you have to make an important decision, don’t lose sleep over it. Just take the special medicine called “time” and wait. Your subconscious will search for the answer.
Two days later, or three, the answer will dawn on you as you are waking up, taking a shower, or talking to a friend.
Put faith in your subconscious mind and give yourself time.

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Dandapani

Imagine yourself exploring a large, dark cave while holding a lantern in your hand. The cave is your mind and the lantern is your awareness, that glowing ball of light. As you walk to one corner of the cave, the lantern lights up that corner, and you are able to see everything here and experience this corner of the cave. Now, if you were to leave this corner and walk to the other side of the dark cave, the corner that you were in would no longer be lit up, and you would not be able to see anything there or experience it. Wherever in the cave you walk with your lantern is what you will see and experience. Awareness and the mind work exactly the same way, except that you are the lantern, young Grasshopper.

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Thich Nhat Hanh

Since we’re human beings, we make mistakes. We cause others to suffer. We hurt our loved ones, and we feel regret. But without making mistakes, there is no way to learn. If you can learn from your mistakes, then you have already transformed garbage into flowers. Very often, our mistakes come from our unskillfulness, and not because we want to harm one another. I think of our behavior in terms of being more or less skillful rather than in terms of good and bad. If you are skillful, you can avoid making yourself suffer and the other person suffer. If there’s something you want to tell the other person, then you have to say it, but do so skillfully, in a way that leads to less rather than more suffering.

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The Self-Love Experiment: Fifteen Principles for Becoming More Kind, Compassionate, and Accepting of Yourself by Shannon Kaiser

Too many people seem to believe that they are not allowed to put themselves first or go after their own dreams out of fear of being selfish or sacrificing others' needs. The Self-Love Experiment rectifies this problem. Whether you want to achieve weight loss, land your dream job, find your soul mate, or get out of debt, it all comes back to self-love and accepting yourself first. Shannon Kaiser learned the secrets to loving herself, finding purpose, and living a passion-filled life after recovering from eating disorders, drug addictions, corporate burnout, and depression. Shannon walks you through her own personal experiment, a simple plan that compassionately guides you through the process of removing fear-based thoughts, so you can fall in love with life your daily habits and perspective. Shannon takes you on this great journey into self-love and true self-acceptance

Be As You Are by Sri Ramana Maharshi

The simple but powerful teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, one of India's most revered spiritual masters, continue to enlighten and enrich over sixty years after his death.

Be As You Are is the definitive compendium of his knowledge, edited by the former librarian from Sri Maharshi's ashram, which can be found flourishing at the foot of the holy mountain of Arunchala. The book collects conversations with the many seekers who came to him for guidance, answering the questions sought on the road to enlightenment.

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