Swami Sivananda Quotes

You either control your mind or it controls you.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

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.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.

Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.

When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.