Swami Sivananda Quotes

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.

Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

Meditation changes your character.

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

Meditation has really done wonders for me personally and artistically.

I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.